# \[e-drug\] WHO and training (cont) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [February 26, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-who-and-training-cont/16190 "2003-02-26T06:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Perla\_Mordujovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@Perla\_Mordujovich](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/Perla_Mordujovich)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-who-and-training-cont/16190/1 "2003-02-26T06:04:09Z")
E-drug: WHO and training (cont) --------------------------------------------- Dear E-drug users: In response to George Kibumba's comment on the need of publications relevant for health professionals in developing countries I would like to say some comments: 1- WHO has already developed a strategy with the aim to improve the use of drugs. They are promoting and supporting training courses directed to teachers of Pharmacotherapy. What we urgently need in order to improve the quality of our health professionals is to introduce changes in the selection of contents and methodology of the learning-teaching process in Pharmacotherapy , Pharmacy and Medicine. 2- Speaking of rational use of medicines and facing an increasing number of new drugs in our pharmaceutical markets we need to develop in our medical doctors and pharmacists, a critical attitude to look for and to evaluate information about medicines (old or new ones): its efficacy, safety,convenience and cost 3-At the same time , students must learn a systematic process of solving health problems. This systematic includes a methodology to select and to apply adequate treatments needed to solve common problems. In this way , medical doctors will be prepared to apply the same methodology also in the solving of non-common health problems. 4-The University of Groningen and the Department of Essential Medicines of WHO, Geneve have developed and published the Guide to Good Prescribing, an excellent book which can be used with the students guided by trained facilitators. 5-Furthemore, we need aware teachers, with knowledge about all the excellent materials already published by WHO, such as the above cited Guide to Good Prescribing, Therapeutic Guides, documents about Rational Use of drugs, economical aspects involved in accessibility, databases on reference prices, all the TRIPS issue, etc, contents and concepts that must be incorporated in the medical and pharmaceutics curricula. These topics are not only useful to the Health Authorities. In my opinion, all our health professionals must know about them, in order to contribute to reach our main goals such as Equity, Efficiency and quality of the health care of our population. 6-If we agree with this view, we must think together how to contribute in the dissemination of publications at the academic level Dr Perla M Buschiazzo Professor of Pharmacology School of Medicine National University of La Plata La Plata Argentina 60 y 120 La Plata 1900 Argentina 54 221 421 6932 "Perla Mordujovich" \ -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@usa.healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@usa.healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug](http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug)