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Antimicrobial Prescribing Preparedness of Croatian Medical Students—Did It Change between 2015 and 2019?

Background: Antimicrobials are some of the most prescribed drugs by junior doctors, but studies suggest most medical graduates feel unprepared for their future prescribing tasks. The aim of the present study was to compare the self-reported preparedness to prudently prescribe antimicrobials of final...

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Autores principales: Palčevski, Dora, Belančić, Andrej, Mikuličić, Ivan, Oštarijaš, Eduard, Likić, Robert, Dyar, Oliver, Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37505060
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines10070039
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author Palčevski, Dora
Belančić, Andrej
Mikuličić, Ivan
Oštarijaš, Eduard
Likić, Robert
Dyar, Oliver
Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera
author_facet Palčevski, Dora
Belančić, Andrej
Mikuličić, Ivan
Oštarijaš, Eduard
Likić, Robert
Dyar, Oliver
Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera
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description Background: Antimicrobials are some of the most prescribed drugs by junior doctors, but studies suggest most medical graduates feel unprepared for their future prescribing tasks. The aim of the present study was to compare the self-reported preparedness to prudently prescribe antimicrobials of final-year medical students in Croatia in 2015 and 2019. Methods: The same self-reported web-based survey on the preparedness to prescribe antibiotics was used in both 2015 and 2019. All final-year students at all four medical schools in Croatia (Osijek, Rijeka, Split, and Zagreb) were invited to participate in both 2015 and 2019. Preparedness scores were divided into “topic preparedness scores” and “global preparedness scores”. Topic preparedness scores represented the percentage of students at a medical school who felt sufficiently prepared for each topic. They were first established at a medical school level and then at the national level. Global preparedness scores were determined for each student separately and then calculated at the medical school and national levels. Results: The country’s global preparedness score, representing the average proportion of topics in which students felt sufficiently prepared, was slightly higher in 2015 compared with the 2019 results (62.7% vs. 56.5%; p = 0.191). Croatian students reported higher preparedness in 2015 than in 2019 for 25 out of 27 topics included in the survey. The majority of students reported a need for more education on antibiotic use both in 2015 and 2019 (78.0% vs. 83.0%; p = 0.199). Conclusions: Despite increasing antimicrobial stewardship activities in various healthcare settings, medical students who are about to start prescribing antibiotics on their own do not feel sufficiently prepared to do so. Antimicrobial stewardship programs should be designed to incorporate undergraduate medical student education, for instance, as a specific, mandatory course or integrated into other courses, such as clinical pharmacology.
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spelling pubmed-103846372023-07-30 Antimicrobial Prescribing Preparedness of Croatian Medical Students—Did It Change between 2015 and 2019? Palčevski, Dora Belančić, Andrej Mikuličić, Ivan Oštarijaš, Eduard Likić, Robert Dyar, Oliver Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera Medicines (Basel) Article Background: Antimicrobials are some of the most prescribed drugs by junior doctors, but studies suggest most medical graduates feel unprepared for their future prescribing tasks. The aim of the present study was to compare the self-reported preparedness to prudently prescribe antimicrobials of final-year medical students in Croatia in 2015 and 2019. Methods: The same self-reported web-based survey on the preparedness to prescribe antibiotics was used in both 2015 and 2019. All final-year students at all four medical schools in Croatia (Osijek, Rijeka, Split, and Zagreb) were invited to participate in both 2015 and 2019. Preparedness scores were divided into “topic preparedness scores” and “global preparedness scores”. Topic preparedness scores represented the percentage of students at a medical school who felt sufficiently prepared for each topic. They were first established at a medical school level and then at the national level. Global preparedness scores were determined for each student separately and then calculated at the medical school and national levels. Results: The country’s global preparedness score, representing the average proportion of topics in which students felt sufficiently prepared, was slightly higher in 2015 compared with the 2019 results (62.7% vs. 56.5%; p = 0.191). Croatian students reported higher preparedness in 2015 than in 2019 for 25 out of 27 topics included in the survey. The majority of students reported a need for more education on antibiotic use both in 2015 and 2019 (78.0% vs. 83.0%; p = 0.199). Conclusions: Despite increasing antimicrobial stewardship activities in various healthcare settings, medical students who are about to start prescribing antibiotics on their own do not feel sufficiently prepared to do so. Antimicrobial stewardship programs should be designed to incorporate undergraduate medical student education, for instance, as a specific, mandatory course or integrated into other courses, such as clinical pharmacology. MDPI 2023-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10384637/ /pubmed/37505060 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines10070039 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Likić, Robert
Dyar, Oliver
Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera
Antimicrobial Prescribing Preparedness of Croatian Medical Students—Did It Change between 2015 and 2019?
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title_fullStr Antimicrobial Prescribing Preparedness of Croatian Medical Students—Did It Change between 2015 and 2019?
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title_short Antimicrobial Prescribing Preparedness of Croatian Medical Students—Did It Change between 2015 and 2019?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37505060
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines10070039
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