Safe and Appropriate Medication Use

📋 Course Outline

1. Prescription Principles and Responsibilities
2. Authorized Healthcare Prescribers
3. Benefit–Risk Assessment
4. Narcotics and Related Medicines
5. Restricted Prescription Medicines
6. Prescription Forms and Requirements
7. Temporary Use Authorizations
8. Generic Medicines and Substitution
9. Pharmacist Roles and Self-Medication
10. Off-Label Prescribing

📖 1. Prescription Principles and Responsibilities

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Medical prescription : Controlled by a social organization such as the CPAM, dispensed by the pharmacist, and carried out by the patient or another healthcare professional.

📝 Essential Points

• A medical prescription may concern medicines, orthoses, prostheses, and other medical devices, and has social, medical, and legal implications.

💡 Memory Hook

Prescribe → control → dispense → execute

📖 2. Authorized Healthcare Prescribers