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WHO MEDICINES STRATEGY 2004-2007 | 124EO 7.7Training in good prescribing anddispensing practices promotedRationaleRational use depends on the knowledge, attitudes,and practices of health care practitioners andconsumers. Educational strategies for both groupsare essential but these are often inappropriateor neglected. In basic (undergraduate) trainingof health care practitioners, for example, thereis often a focus on the transfer of narrow, timelimitedpharmacological knowledge, rather thanon the development of lifetime prescribing skillsand the ability to assess medicines informationcritically.ProgressWHO has had an impact on the training ofprescribers worldwide through the publicationof the Guide to Good Prescribing and trainingin the use of this. The Teachers Guide to GoodPrescribing was published in 2001. Work is inprogress to develop material for a Guide to GoodPharmacy Practice. Three international trainingcourses per year in English, French, and Spanishon problem-based pharmacotherapy have beensupported. An evaluation of their impact is underway.Over the past three years, in partnership withother concerned groups, WHO has conducteda wide range of training courses on differentaspects of rational use of medicines, togetherwith the production and promotion of trainingmaterials.Training courses related to therational use of medicines> Promoting the rational use ofmedicines, in collaboration withINRUD and coordinated byManagement Sciences for Health(MSH), USA. This course teachesthe investigation of medicine usein primary health care and how topromote rational use of medicinesby providers.> Promoting rational medicine usein the community, in collaborationwith the University of Amsterdam,the Netherlands. This course teachesthe investigation of medicine usein the community, and how topromote rational use of medicinesby consumers.> Drugs and therapeutics committees,in collaboration with theRational Pharmaceutical Programcoordinated by ManagementSciences for Health, USA. Thiscourse teaches methods forevaluating medicine utilizationand how to promote rational use ofmedicines in hospitals and districts.> Problem-based pharmacotherapyteaching, in collaboration withGroningen University, TheNetherlands, the University ofCape Town, South Africa, theUniversity of La Plata, Argentina(in Spanish) and the NationalCentre for Pharmacovigilance,Ministry of Health, Algiers, Algeria(in French). This course teaches a