Prescribing is the principal task of any medical doctor. Additionally, prescribing medicine is the most exigent and complex work comprising a series of sub-proficiency. Prudent prescribing is an imperative factor in determining the excellence of public healthcare. Poor grade prescribing has been pinned down as one of the principal causes of a medication error, adverse drug events, and reactions. There has been reported that no less than 50% of prescribed and consumed medicine globally is either irrationally or was not at all necessary. Teaching and learning defining have been considered a significant issue for any medical education and non-medical prescribing curriculum.
Pharmacology can be defined as the study of substances that interact with living systems through chemical processes, especially by binding to regulatory molecules and activating or inhibiting normal body processes. Clinical pharmacology includes all affiliation features between medicines and humans, from headaches to significant life-threatening cancer. Pharmacology is the only medical sphere that focuses on safe, effective, and economical medicines. This discipline of medical science worldwide is rapidly expanding and highly diverse and deals with sustainability and improvements best possible healthcare.
Pharmacology covers all aspects of drug discovery and development, from antibiotics, cancer treatment, natural products, allergies, and many more. The field of pharmacology covers research on new drugs and their targets, understanding the impact of these chemicals on the body, developing strategies for administration, and ultimately bench to bedside – the delivery of such medication. Therefore, education in pharmacology is essential to ensure all aspects of the field are aligned, so that drug discovery and development continue to progress as diseases evolve, develop, prudent prescribing. Education is essential to ensure new drugs are discovered and designed to help fight diseases, ensure these drugs are safe and are the best course of action for the target diseases. Training, identifying potential blockers, strategies to overcome them, and best practices are essential to address as the field develops. Thereby, adequate clinical pharmacology input in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education remains the backbone of rational and prudent prescribing.
This Research Topic aims to address the current issues faced in education by principal investigators, lab managers, and student supervisors who educate and train new / early-stage researchers within the field and issues faced by clinical scientists in the bench-to-bedside of drugs. Furthermore, we aim to discuss methods and approaches to educate and train people of all ages and backgrounds to think in pharmacology.
This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts that help to address some of the following essential questions:
A. Why are education and training essential in developing pharmacology, drug discovery, and related processes?
B. What are the core concepts of pharmacology research, and how can they be taught to people of different educational levels and backgrounds?
C. What are the current/new strategies adopted in education and training to address these challenges?
D. What are effective methods for teaching students how pharmacology can be applied to the development/testing/translation of new drugs to market?
E. What are the fundamental tools (software/techniques/protocols etc.) used in pharmacology research?
This topic will act as a resource for principal investigators, lab managers, supervisors, educators, clinicians, researchers, and the broader community within the field to educate early-stage researchers/ medical students, /pharmacologists.
We welcome contributions in the form of original research, review, mini review, case report, hypothesis and theory, perspective, and experimental studies that cover but are not limited to, the themes discussed in this Research Topic. We encourage authors to make data and tools discussed in their findings available for educational purposes.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in the mission statement. Frontiers reserve the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more appropriate area or journal at any peer review stage.
Prescribing is the principal task of any medical doctor. Additionally, prescribing medicine is the most exigent and complex work comprising a series of sub-proficiency. Prudent prescribing is an imperative factor in determining the excellence of public healthcare. Poor grade prescribing has been pinned down as one of the principal causes of a medication error, adverse drug events, and reactions. There has been reported that no less than 50% of prescribed and consumed medicine globally is either irrationally or was not at all necessary. Teaching and learning defining have been considered a significant issue for any medical education and non-medical prescribing curriculum.
Pharmacology can be defined as the study of substances that interact with living systems through chemical processes, especially by binding to regulatory molecules and activating or inhibiting normal body processes. Clinical pharmacology includes all affiliation features between medicines and humans, from headaches to significant life-threatening cancer. Pharmacology is the only medical sphere that focuses on safe, effective, and economical medicines. This discipline of medical science worldwide is rapidly expanding and highly diverse and deals with sustainability and improvements best possible healthcare.
Pharmacology covers all aspects of drug discovery and development, from antibiotics, cancer treatment, natural products, allergies, and many more. The field of pharmacology covers research on new drugs and their targets, understanding the impact of these chemicals on the body, developing strategies for administration, and ultimately bench to bedside – the delivery of such medication. Therefore, education in pharmacology is essential to ensure all aspects of the field are aligned, so that drug discovery and development continue to progress as diseases evolve, develop, prudent prescribing. Education is essential to ensure new drugs are discovered and designed to help fight diseases, ensure these drugs are safe and are the best course of action for the target diseases. Training, identifying potential blockers, strategies to overcome them, and best practices are essential to address as the field develops. Thereby, adequate clinical pharmacology input in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education remains the backbone of rational and prudent prescribing.
This Research Topic aims to address the current issues faced in education by principal investigators, lab managers, and student supervisors who educate and train new / early-stage researchers within the field and issues faced by clinical scientists in the bench-to-bedside of drugs. Furthermore, we aim to discuss methods and approaches to educate and train people of all ages and backgrounds to think in pharmacology.
This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts that help to address some of the following essential questions:
A. Why are education and training essential in developing pharmacology, drug discovery, and related processes?
B. What are the core concepts of pharmacology research, and how can they be taught to people of different educational levels and backgrounds?
C. What are the current/new strategies adopted in education and training to address these challenges?
D. What are effective methods for teaching students how pharmacology can be applied to the development/testing/translation of new drugs to market?
E. What are the fundamental tools (software/techniques/protocols etc.) used in pharmacology research?
This topic will act as a resource for principal investigators, lab managers, supervisors, educators, clinicians, researchers, and the broader community within the field to educate early-stage researchers/ medical students, /pharmacologists.
We welcome contributions in the form of original research, review, mini review, case report, hypothesis and theory, perspective, and experimental studies that cover but are not limited to, the themes discussed in this Research Topic. We encourage authors to make data and tools discussed in their findings available for educational purposes.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in the mission statement. Frontiers reserve the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more appropriate area or journal at any peer review stage.
