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Health Education Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1-6, February 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Medical students and AIDS: knowledge, attitudes and implications for education

David R. Kopacz, Linda S. Grossman1 and Debra L. Klamen1

Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska/Omaha VA, 4101 Woolworth Ave, Omaha, NE 68105 and
1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA

Correspondence to: D. L. Kamen

Second year medical students at a large midwestern university were surveyed about their attitudes regarding AIDS. Results indicated: (1) students with homosexual and/or HIV-positive friends were significantly more tolerant toward AIDS patients, (2) over half the students believed that treating AIDS patients may be hazardous and that their education had not prepared them to treat these patients safely, (3) one-third believed they had the right to refuse to treat AIDS patients, and (4) AIDS-phobia was significantly associated with homophobia. These data suggest that medical educators may need to help students overcome AIDS-phobia before some students will be able to incorporate instruction about AIDS since AIDS-phobia may inhibit this learning. Didactic instruction must be coupled with modeling by educators of non-prejudicial attitudes and strict adherence to medical professionalism.


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