Over the last 20 years, there has been a major drive to develop clinical pharmacology and prescribing teaching and assessment, most notably resulting in the creation of the prescribing safety assessment (PSA).1 The PSA has itself been a source of research around training and preparation for prescribing2 and the challenges it poses to candidates with dyslexia and other disabilities.3 In 2003, the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology published a Core Curriculum, proposed by the British...