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Background The objective of this study was to describe the knowledge regarding antibiotic therapy of students of three medical schools of Medellín, Colombia. Methods The study population was made up of medical students enrolled in three universities. The instrument contained questions about their current academic term, the university the perceived quality of the education received on antibiotic therapy and bacterial resistance and specific questions on upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and skin and soft tissue infections. The information was analysed by calculating frequencies and measures of dispersion and central tendency. Knowledge about the treatment of each type of infection was compared with the Mann–Whitney U test and the Kruskal–Wallis H test. Results We included 536 medical students, 43.5% consider that the university did not train them enough to interpret antibiograms, 29.6% consider that the quality of information received on the subject at their university ranges from regular to poor. The mean score for knowledge regarding antibiotic therapy for upper respiratory tract infections was 44.2 ± 9.9 on a scale from 0 to 100. In the treatment of pneumonias, the median score was 52.9 ± 14.7, in urinary tract infection was 58.7 ± 14.8 and skin and soft tissue infections was 63.1 ± 19.4. The knowledge regarding antibiotic therapy for upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonias and urinary tract infection does not improve with academic term, the university, or perception of the education received Conclusion A large proportion of medical students perceive that the training received from the university is deficient regarding antibiotics and bacterial resistance, which coincides with the limited knowledge reflected in the selection of antibiotic treatment for respiratory, urinary tract, skin and soft tissue infections. Overall, the situation is the same among all universities and it does not significantly increase with academic term. |
