Introduction

There is no formal prescribing assessment across the United Kingdom to ensure that all graduates are at the same level of competence required to enter their prescribing practice. As a result, the Prescribing Safety Assessment was proposed by the Medical Schools Council and the British Pharmacological Society to help medical graduates achieve these learning outcomes before they are released into the real world. The content of the assessment maps into prescribing competencies indicated by the General Medical Council. This chapter is intended to test the knowledge of the graduates in the "prescribing" area based on different drug choices and appropriate doses, route/pharmaceutical forms, frequencies of administration and duration of treatment prior to a review.