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A brief report on perceptions of alcohol and society among Scottish medical students
1Department of Gastroenterology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.
Aims:
To assess perceptions on alcohol misuse and addiction among medical students prior to in-depth training in order to determine areas of the curriculum that need to be reshaped or focused on.
Methods:
A questionnaire assessment of first- and second-year medical students' perceptions of alcohol misuse.
Results:
Students had some misconceptions about current alcohol misuse rates, including a perception that addiction is common among health professionals, that the under-25s had the fastest increasing rate of alcohol addiction and that British women had a more rapidly increasing rate of alcohol addiction than British men.
Conclusion:
Encouragingly, students overwhelmingly felt that alcohol addiction was something to which they could make a difference. It highlights that early education about alcohol misuse is important in terms of teaching students how to recognize hazardous and harmful drinkers and how to manage them.
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