Investigation of Biomedical Students' Attitudes toward Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The utilization of pharmacogenomics in everyday practice has shown several notable benefits. Keeping in mind the rising trend of applicability of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, we sought to compare the attitudes of future healthcare workers in different branches of the healthcare system.

Methods

The present study was conducted as a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study in October of 2020. Students eligible to participate were all the students of the University of Split School of Medicine enrolled in the academic year 2020/2021.

Results

The number of students that participated in the study was 503. Students were most interested in clinical examples of pharmacogenomics (31.4%) and the benefits of pharmacogenomics in clinical practice (36.4%).

SUBMITTER: Bukic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9326582 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature