1Département Universitaire de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine,

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articletivities during general practice visits. In Europe, rates of medication prescription per general practice visit range from 43 % to 90%, France being the country with the highest prescription rate per general practice visit [1]. Prescribing is a complex process and 4.9 % of all pre-scription items have been found to include errors in pre-scribing or monitoring in general practice, with 0.2 % of ciated with sub-optimal processes resulting in only 4% to 21 % of patients achieving maximum benefit from their medication [3]. Prescribing medication is a complex task requiring the understanding of basic principles of clinical pharma-cology and therapeutics, the knowledge of medicines, the application of different skills (diagnostic, communi-cation), the appreciation of risk and uncertainty, and, ideally, ample experience in clinical practice [4]. In these regards, teaching of medication prescribing is a specific challenge in post-graduate medical education. Evidenc