P03.04. Attitudes and knowledge of medical students towards complementary therapies

Results Three hundred ninety-two students (65.2% of all undergraduates) answered the questionnaire, with a uniform distribution between genders. Of these, 30.7% affirmed they had been treated with complementary therapies. Eightyeight percent knew about complementary therapies with the most known being herbal medicine (90.3%). Eightythree percent declared they got the knowledge about the therapies from non-academic sources such as media. The majority demonstrated favorable attitudes towards the therapies, and 84.7% of them would recommend or support their use by their patients and family, and 75.3% of them would like to learn about the subject in curricular classes. Few students (15.6%) claimed this subject was taught in undergraduate curricular classes.