Table 2.
Resources used by medical students to learn about antimicrobial use and resistance, percentage reporting resource used sometimes/often
Resource | Sometimes/often (%) | P valueb |
---|---|---|
N = 605 | ||
Textbooks or study guides | 80.2 | 0.012a |
Peers (other students) | 57.7 | 0.016a |
Wikipedia | 52.1 | 0.001a |
iPhone/smartphone applications | 50.5 | 0.489 |
Non-ID physicians | 38.0 | 0.672 |
Infectious diseases specialists | 27.0 | 0.322 |
Hospital pharmacists | 22.1 | 0.031a |
Medical journals | 19.7 | <0.001a |
Other guidelines by professional organizations | 17.3 | 0.726 |
Pharmaceutical representatives | 13.6 | 0.241 |
Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide | 11.5 | 0.626 |
Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines | 10.6 | 0.922 |
Sanford guide | 8.6 | 0.206 |
aP < 0.05 refers to statistical differences in the percentages of different teaching hospitals
bχ2 test