Medical, nursing, and pharmacy students' ability to recognize potential drug-drug interactions: a comparison of healthcare professional students.

To evaluate and compare the drug-drug interaction (DDI) knowledge of pharmacy, medical, and nurse practitioner (NP) students who are beginning supervised clinical practice. This study utilized a prospective evaluation of DDI knowledge among healthcare professional students who were currently enrolled in their final didactic year at the University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, or Nursing's NP program. Students were asked to assess 15 drug pairs and to select an appropriate management strategy for each pair. The primary outcome measure was the ability to correctly categorize each drug pair into one of the five management responses. The secondary outcome measure was the number of clinically significant DDIs recognized. Pharmacy students demonstrated significantly better knowledge than medical and NP students with respect to identifying and selecting management strategies for possible DDIs. However, there is much room for improvement for all groups. An increase in curricular content that focuses on DDIs has the potential to better prepare medical, pharmacy, and NP students for practice situations involving DDI alerts, and to increase the quality of patient care.

Warholak TL ，Hines LE ，Song MC ，Gessay A ，Menke JM ，Sherrill D ，Reel S ，Murphy JE ，Malone DC ... -  《-》

Healthcare professional students' knowledge of drug-drug interactions.

Harrington AR ，Warholak TL ，Hines LE ，Taylor AM ，Sherrill D ，Malone DC ... -  《-》

Impact of a drug-drug interaction intervention on pharmacy and medical students' knowledge and attitudes: a 1-year follow-up.

There have been many interventions aimed at improving retention of drug-drug interaction (DDI) knowledge of health care professionals. Much less is known about their retention of such knowledge for extended periods of time after an educational intervention. To evaluate pharmacy and medical students' knowledge retention and attitudes 1 year after participating in an educational session on DDIs. This study used a pre-post design with an assessment of DDI knowledge and attitude by pharmacy and medical students before and after the final didactic year of their professional education. The intervention was a 1-hour program. A total of 74 of 193 students (38%) completed the pre, post, and final questionnaire. The median numbers of correctly identified DDIs before the program were 8 and 7 for pharmacy and medical students, respectively, out of a possible score of 15. One year after, the median identification knowledge scores were 12 and 8, respectively, for pharmacy and medical students. The median difference scores of correctly managed DDIs on this evaluation 1 year after the program were -4 and -8 for pharmacy and medical students, respectively (P<.05). This study found that the ability to identify important DDIs is poor among both pharmacy and medical students 1 year after being exposed to the educational session.

Hincapie AL ，Warholak TL ，Hines LE ，Taylor AM ，Malone DC ... -  《-》

Knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes of advanced practice nursing students regarding medical genetics.

Maradiegue A ，Edwards QT ，Seibert D ，Macri C ，Sitzer L ... -  《Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners》

Potential determinants of prescribers' drug-drug interaction knowledge.

Ko Y ，Malone DC ，D'Agostino JV ，Skrepnek GH ，Armstrong EP ，Brown M ，Woosley RL ... -  《Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy》