How good is your prescribing? Not very good at all, if statistics are to be believed. Junior doctors make nearly a fifth of prescribing errors; just 35% of medical students have filled in a drug chart more than three times before qualifying. The blame is being laid at the feet of inconsistent and inadequate clinical pharmacology teaching in medical schools. One pharmacology professor described teaching in French medical schools as “insufficient, uncoordinated, and likely to get worse.” (p 10) The British Pharmacological Society and the Medical Schools …