Prescribing Skills Assessment
The Prescribing Skills Assessment is an online assessment tool for organisations looking to measure and improve prescribing safety and skill. It is derived from the UK Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) and the content can be adapted to suit local education and prescribing practice in different countries. The Prescribing Skills Assessment is now being used by medical schools, pharmacy schools and healthcare institutions all over the world.
- Developed by experts and quality checked through peer review
- Covers the same 8 areas of prescribing competency as the UK PSA
- Automated-marking formative assessments allow results data to be stored for download by the educator
- Practice assessments allow for instant, data-rich feedback to help students’ understanding
- Questions suitable from undergraduate to professional level
- Accessible anytime, anywhere through our online platform
8 Question Item Styles
Access hundreds of questions across 8 distinct question styles, covering all major areas of the clinical practice relevant to prescribers, from prescription review to drug monitoring. The questions mirror the question styles used in the UK Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) and span a range of clinical settings, including General Practice, Paediatrics, Opioids and AMR.
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The Prescribing Skills Assessment is a valid and reliable test of prescribing competency, delivered by BPS Assessment in partnership with medical schools and healthcare institutions all over the world.
The Prescribing Skills Assessment is derived from the UK’s national prescribing assessment, known as the Prescribing Safety Assessment (the UK PSA) exam, which all trainee doctors must pass in order to progress in their training.
The Prescribing Skills Assessment uses the same underlying online platform and tests the same eight areas of prescribing competency as the UK PSA exam and is overseen by a team of prescribing experts.
The Prescribing Skills Assessment can be used both formatively and summatively. We customise the Prescribing Skills Assessment for various worldwide markets where there is a desire to improve prescribing safety. There is evidence to suggest that the UK PSA has had a positive effect on the safety of patients. Since the UK PSA was made mandatory in 2017, the percentage of medication-related patient safety incidents has reduced year-on-year. There are many variables to take into account with this data, but the correlation is clear. These improvements in prescribing safety and patient outcomes in the UK are what we strive to replicate in other countries across the world.
Yes, the content of the Prescribing Skills Assessment can be tailored to a particular region or formulary, and is already being used all over the world.
It’s important to note that the Prescribing Skills Assessment is not the Prescribing Safety Assessment (aka the UK PSA exam) that is undertaken by UK-based medical students and resident doctors, but it does align with the UK formulary. So an important step in providing the Prescribing Skills Assessment worldwide is to work with local institutions to regionalise it correctly.
Yes; our cloud-based platform allows us to deliver localised Prescribing Skills Assessment exams at a time and place that suits you and your candidates.
Many regions worldwide have arranged their own Prescribing Skills Assessment mock or formative exams, and summative assessments and learning experiences via our cloud-based platform successfully.
We’ve recently introduced SSO integration and can often work with your current IT stack to deliver the Prescribing Skills Assessment to your candidates simply and effectively for all parties involved.
No, the Prescribing Skills Assessment service we offer worldwide is not the same as the UK PSA exam. It is, however, built on the same platform and based on the same assessment blueprint. It can be developed in line with your local requirements to offer eLearning, and formative or summative assessments, to suit your clinical guidance, formulary and candidates.
We know the UK PSA exam has been a great success in improving prescribing safety, and now the Prescribing Skills Assessment aims to offer these same improvements to other countries worldwide.
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Why choose BPS Assessment for Prescribing Skills Assessment?
We offer our Prescribing Skills Assessment worldwide to countries and regions aiming to improve their prescribing safety, and to help medical students improve their prescribing competence and confidence. We have seen this improvement across the UK since the introduction of the UK PSA exam, and we aim to assist other regions in improving their prescribing educational record too.
The Prescribing Skills Assessment, unlike the UK PSA, can be tailored to your requirements locally based on what you’d like to offer your candidates. Formularies, prescribing questions, and drug banks can be customised and we can assist you in offering a summative assessment or formative learning in the classroom.
Prescribing Skills Assessment Resources
Watch this video to learn more about the Prescribing Skills Assessment and what BPS Assessment can offer your institution.
If you’re considering introducing a localised PSA assessment in your country, we offer an initial demonstration of our platform. Following this we’ll work with you to customise the Prescribing Skills Assessment product to suit your requirements.
We offer our Prescribing Skills Assessment worldwide to countries and regions aiming to improve their prescribing safety, and to help medical students improve their prescribing competence and confidence. We have seen this improvement across the UK since the introduction of the UK PSA exam, and we aim to assist other regions in improving their prescribing educational record too.
The Prescribing Skills Assessment, unlike the UK PSA, can be tailored to your requirements locally based on what you’d like to offer your candidates. Formularies, prescribing questions, and drug banks can be customised and we can assist you in offering a summative assessment or formative learning in the classroom.
We have a variety of resources available to our Prescribing Skills Assessment subscribers, including our Learner Portal, PSA Prep (our eLearning session developed for students who will sit the UK PSA exam), and box sets on specialist areas of prescribing knowledge, as well as blogs, articles and webinars.