This ‘Answering Questions about Medicines’ training package (workbook and associated resources), has been commissioned by Health Education England (HEE) and has been produced by pharmacy professionals working in NHS Medicines Information Services, that are part of the UKMi network.

The aim of this package is to help build your confidence in the skills and knowledge you need to answer questions about medicines, whichever sector you work in, and to give you ways of thinking about things so that you can approach answering questions in a structured way.

We have developed a suite of podcasts and bitesize audio ‘micro-teaches’ for you to listen to. These links are in the appropriate sections of the workbook but we thought that it would also be useful for you to have them in one place.

Answering Questions about Medicines MI Skills Workbook

Topic categoryTitle
MethodologyHow to take in a question – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
 How to plan a search strategy – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
What to ask about toxic ingestions
‘How to’ topicsHow to think about renal function – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
How to think about… liver function – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
How to think about… SPCs – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
 How to think about IV compatibility – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
 How to think about drug interactions questions – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
How to think about legal questions – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
 How to think about medicines stability – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
Short audio on terms used when dating a pregnancy
SkillsShared decision making – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
Critical appraisal and pharmacoeconomicsHow to think about… summary statistics (“short” version) – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify (5 minutes version) How to think about… summary statistics (“long” version) – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify (10 minutes version)
 How to think about odds and odds ratios – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
 How are medicines funded in the NHS in England? – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify
 Pragmatic critical appraisal – Pharmacy Microteaches | Podcast on Spotify

Related

RDTC was commissioned as part of Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) to write the content for SPS Safety in Pregnancy – training resources and information on treating common conditions in pregnancy.

The Medicines Learning Portal is a useful resource for trainee and foundation level pharmacists. It is primarily aimed at hospital pharmacists but much of it is also useful to pharmacists in other sectors. It is designed to provide resources and expertise that will help UK pharmacists at the beginning of their careers to tackle the clinical problems that will confront them throughout their professional lives.