The Prescriber Program

The goals of the Prescriber Program are to improve prescribing practices by: 1) educating health professionals at all levels of training about the drug development and approval process; 2) making health professionals aware of pharmaceutical industry marketing practices and assisting them in developing the knowledge and skills to evaluate those marketing techniques; and 3) providing examples and strategies for evaluating existing sources of drug information, and for accessing unbiased sources of information about drugs.

Following a Request for Application process, the program awarded 28 grants to Academic Institutions and non-profit organizations to fund the development, dissemination and evaluation of curricula to provide practicing health professionals, and those in training, with the critical skills necessary to evaluate prescription drug information and industry marketing techniques, and to apply this knowledge to their own prescribing practices.

Click to view of list of funded projects. (pdf, 3 pages, 88K)