The evaluation of prescription dispensing scores of the pharmacy students before and after the problem-based “rational drug use” course: Results of the two years’ experience

Hale Zerrin TOKLU, Rumeysa DEMIRDAMAR
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Dispensing score; pharmacy practice; rational use of medicine; problem- based pharmacotherapy; pharmacist; pharmacy student; simulated patient, CyprusThe evaluation of prescription dispensing

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12991/2013171312

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