Researchers sent electronic surveys to 317 fourth-year medical students at The University of Miami (Fla.), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the University of Washington in Seattle. Only 15 percent of those surveyed had completed a clinical infectious diseases rotation during medical school, which was correlated on the survey questions with a higher knowledge of antimicrobials.
Only about 33 percent of respondents thought that they had adequate knowledge of basic antimicrobial use
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