Study: 90% of Medical Students Want More Education on Antimicrobial Stewardship

A study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that 92 percent of medical students think that a strong knowledge of antimicrobials is important for their careers, and 90 percent want more education on proper use of antimicrobials.

 

Researchers sent electronic surveys to 317 fourth-year medical students at The University of Miami (Fla.), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the University of Washington in Seattle. Only 15 percent of those surveyed had completed a clinical infectious diseases rotation during medical school, which was correlated on the survey questions with a higher knowledge of antimicrobials. 

 

Only about 33 percent of respondents thought that they had adequate knowledge of basic antimicrobial use