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## Background 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 g

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Author

P Ravi Shankar; Kundan K Singh; Rano M Piryani

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: Biomed Central, 2008-; Publons; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1756-0500)

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781756050051

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)