Structured and unstructured viva voce assessment: A double-blind, randomized, comparative evaluation of medical students.

Objectives: The proper assessment orients learning in the desired direction. The structuring of assessment tools helps in minimizing the examination bias. However, the structuring of viva voce (SVV) has not been tried much.

Time to teach basic and regulatory aspects of art of prescription writing for better doctor-patient safety and keeping communication accessible and straight.

Purpose: The basic and regulatory knowledge of prescription writing is essential for every medical student to evolve into a prescribing physician. Prescription becomes the most important clinical pharmacology tool and evidence of the medication access, prescription errors, prescribing errors, negligence and further litigations once released from the hands of the physicians. A questionnaire based cross-sectional survey was done to evaluate knowledge of basic and regulatory aspects of prescription writing in the light of growing violence against physicians in India.

Off-label drug use in Psychiatry Outpatient Department: A prospective study at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital.

Introduction: Off-label drug prescribing is very common in Psychiatry. US-Food and Drug Administration has defined off-label drug as "use of drugs for the indication, dosage form, regimen, patient or other use constraint not mentioned in the approved labeling."

Objective: The objective was to evaluate off-label drug use in patients attending Outpatient Department of Psychiatry.