The British Pharmacological Society welcomes the recommendations related to clinical pharmacology in the report of the Working Party of the Royal College of Physicians (Feb 7, p 435) In particular we strongly agree that there is a pressing need for more education in the art of practical prescribing2 through the science of pharmacology. The spotlight should particularly be thrown on to medical students (whose prescribing education has languished in recent years through a declining complement of consultant clinical pharmacologists) and general practitioners (who are the major prescribers of medicines).
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