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Knowledge regarding diabetes among students of the final year of medicine in Poland

2021

Introduction: There is a rising number of people with diabetes worldwide. It was the first non-infectious disease to be acknowledged by the Word Health Organization as an epidemy. This is the first study to assess basic diabetes-related knowledge among students of the final year of medicine in Poland. Materials and methods: Medical students from: Medical University of Silesia (Schools of Medicine in Katowice(34%) and Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze(32%)), Medical University of Warsaw(12%) and Medical University of Lodz(22%) completed an anonymous questionnaire (519 responses (63.8% women); response rate 68.7%). The survey covered five questions concerning the respondent an…