Medical students' perception on fecal microbiota transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has become an emergent method in the therapy of several intestinal diseases, mainly in Clostridium difficile recurrence. The training of FMT in medical schools is at its beginning and in countries where FMT is only occasionally carried out, it is important to know the perception of medical students on FMT.

Methods

We undertook a survey of 3rd year medical students not exposed to official academic information on FMT in order to find out their knowledge, beliefs and attitude toward FMT. A number of 80 students were asked to fill a dedicated online questionnaire.

Results

52 out of 80 third year medical students anonymously filled the questionnaire (65% response rate). 34% of respondents reported to have at least a medium

SUBMITTER: Madar PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6788000 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature