Table 4.
How well do you feel that your medical/pharmacy education has prepared you to do the following upon graduation?
| Statements | Medical Students | Pharmacy Students |
t (p-Value) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
||
| To know when to start antimicrobial therapy | 3.30 | 3.36 | 1.01 |
| (0.97) | (0.99) | (0.314) | |
| How to select the best antimicrobial for a specific infection? | 2.94 | 3.18 | 0.28 |
| (1.13) | (1.03) | (0.001) * | |
| To describe the correct spectrum of antimicrobial therapy for different antimicrobials (what is covered by each drug) | 3.32 | 3.28 | −0.51 ** |
| (1.00) | (1.04) | (0.613) | |
| Understand the basic mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance | 3.44 | 3.56 | 1.89 |
| (1.01) | (0.97) | (0.059) * | |
| How to streamline or de-escalate antimicrobial therapy? | 3.23 | 3.09 | −2.24 ** |
| (0.99) | (0.95) | (0.025) * | |
| How to interpret antibiograms? | 3.02 | 2.96 | −0.71 * |
| (1.11) | (1.10) | (0.481) | |
| How to find reliable sources of information to treat infections? | 3.24 | 3.42 | 2.68 |
| (1.05) | (1.01) | (0.008) * | |
| How to transition from intravenous to oral antibiotics (IV to PO switch)? | 2.91 | 3.03 | 2.02 |
| (0.96) | (0.88) | (0.044) * | |
| How to handle a patient who demands antimicrobial therapy that is not indicated? | 3.23 | 3.31 | 1.12 |
| (1.13) | (1.07) | (0.262) | |
| Overall Score | 3.18 | 3.24 | 1.44 |
| (0.70) | (0.68) | (0.152) |
SD = standard deviation, t = independent t-test, IV = intravenous, PO = per oral. * p≤ 0.05 (significant difference). ** In statistics, a negative t-value elaborates that the direction of the effect under study is being reversed, this value has no impact on the significance of difference between groups of data.