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Table 4.

Medical students’ perceptions on their education regarding appropriate antimicrobial use and antimicrobial stewardship—percentage who feel their education has been good/very good with comparison across teaching hospitals

Antimicrobial stewardship activity	Good/very good (%)	P value^b
Antimicrobial stewardship activity	N = 606	P value^b
Understand the basic mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance	54.1	<0.001^a
Know when to start antimicrobial therapy	40.0	0.004^a
Select an appropriate regimen	36.9	0.021^a
Describe the correct spectrum of antimicrobial therapy for different antimicrobials (what is covered by each drug)	35.2	0.009^a
Transition from intravenous to oral antimicrobials (intravenous to oral switch)	34.2	<0.001^a
Find reliable sources of information to treat infections	34.0	<0.001^a
Interpret antibiograms	28.3	<0.001^a
Streamline or deescalate antimicrobial therapy	28.2	0.040^a
Handle a patient who demands antimicrobial therapy that is not indicated	25.6	0.254

^aP < 0.05 refers to statistical differences in the percentages of different teaching hospitals

^bχ² test