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Knowledge, attitude and skills before and after a module on pharmaceutical promotion in a Nepalese medical school

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, January 2012
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Title
Knowledge, attitude and skills before and after a module on pharmaceutical promotion in a Nepalese medical school
Published in
BMC Research Notes, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-5-8
Pubmed ID
22221485
Authors

P Ravi Shankar, Kundan K Singh, Rano M Piryani

Abstract

Pharmaceutical promotion is widespread and can impact prescribing by health professionals. Little research has been conducted on interactions between medical students and the pharmaceutical industry. Teaching about pharmaceutical promotion is inadequate. A survey showed that many schools spend only about two hours teaching this important topic while others spend around six hours. Recently a manual on understanding and responding to promotion has been published by Health Action International (HAI) and the World Health Organization (WHO). From April to August 2011 the department of Clinical Pharmacology at KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal conducted a module on pharmaceutical promotion for second year students based on the manual. The module used active learning strategies such as brainstorming sessions, role plays and group activities. The study worked on the hypothesis that a module on pharmaceutical promotion will be effective in improving the knowledge, attitude and skills of medical students regarding pharmaceutical promotion. The impact of the module on knowledge, attitude and skills was tested using a retrospective-pre questionnaire. The scores according to gender and method of financing of medical education before and after the module were compared using appropriate non-parametric tests.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 3%
Unknown 33 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 18%
Unspecified 5 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 12%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 8 24%
Unknown 6 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 35%
Unspecified 5 15%
Social Sciences 5 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 9 26%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2014.
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#5,233,735
of 17,359,532 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#869
of 3,664 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#61,654
of 226,316 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#89
of 293 outputs
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