How to navigate the Clinical Primer
The course includes nine modules with specific learning objectives to guide your progress. Navigating the modules is straightforward.
The article and audio offer a summary of the module topic. The fully referenced text provides an in-depth understanding. And you can test your knowledge with the clinical quiz – did you miss something?
The Peer Insights module provides insights from experienced peers across the globe who prescribe, dispense, and administer cannabis-based medicines.
Finally, the clinical evaluation tools, medicine interaction tables, and the reference module is your prompt to ongoing, independent learning.
About the authors and editor
This guidance draws on clinical research, clinical observations, and professional experiences to provide useful, real-world insights to the rational use of cannabis-based medicines.
Author
Dr Jürgen Fleisch
Dr Jürgen Fleisch (MD, PhD) has practised anaesthesiology and pain therapy since 2007 at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Netherlands. His close cooperation with the Department of Oncology of the LUMC allowed him to regularly treat pain and related symptoms in cancer patients using classic medications and interventional pain treatments. He also has considerable experience prescribing cannabis-based medicines.
Author
Martin Woodbridge
Martin Woodbridge (MPHC, DPH) trained
and lectured at the University of Otago’s Wellington School of Medicine. In 2007, he wrote New Zealand’s regulatory policy and clinical guidelines on medicinal cannabis for the Ministry of Health. Since then, he has advised on programmes in Oceania and Asia and for the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board’s regulatory guidance on cannabis intended for medical and scientific use. He is also the author of the complimentary text ‘A primer to medicinal cannabis’. Martin has worked with Carl and Jürgen on different projects relating to the rational use of medicines.
Editor
Professor Emeritus Dr Carl Burgess
Professor Emeritus Dr Carl Burgess (MB ChB, MD, MRCP, FRACP, FRCP) is a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Pharmacology. He taught internal medicine and clinical pharmacology from 1982 to 2013 at the University of Otago’s Wellington School of Medicine while also a consultant hospital physician to Capital and Coast Health, New Zealand. He has been involved in clinical pharmacology research since 1976.
Acknowledgements
The Clinical Primer is also the result of the contribution of several healthcare professionals from around the world, who agreed to share their experience with prescribing, dispensing and administering cannabis-based medicines for patients with different conditions.
Disclaimer
This resource reflects published data, information and clinical insights as at the year 2024. It considers the rational use of cannabis-based medicines within a prescriber-pharmacy model of care.
While all efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy and scientific nature of information at the time of its production, the authors make no representations, implied or otherwise, as to the safety and efficacy of cannabis-based medicines and the methods of administration until such time that reliable clinical data is provided, nor to the contents as certain information may have become outdated due to the rapid scientific and clinical developments in this field.
Neither the authors nor the publisher accepts liability for any damage that may result from the use of the information contained within, nor do they give any guarantees with regard to the nature and the contents thereof. The author does not accept any liability for damage of any kind, caused by third party content attached to, written or printed in or on this text.
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Disclosure
The Clinical Primer on Cannabis is produced by Woodbridge Research Ltd.
This is a free-to-access educational resource funded under the policy of education without commercial bias. This project was made possible with funding provided by Bedrocan International.
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