Progress on PRUD activities; (cont.)
■ The WHO Model List of Essential Drugs, and regional and international rational drug use courses, form a large part of ongoing WHO efforts to improve drug use by health professionals.
■ International training courses for university teachers in problem-based pharmacotherapy teaching are held every year in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
■ Two randomized controlled trials with over ten centres in developed and developing countries have shown that the teaching methods transfer lasting skills in rational prescribing.