Physiciansʼ and medical studentsʼ knowledge of nutrition

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Abstract
A study was conducted to assess the knowledge of nutrition of 184 family practitioners and general internists and 24 first - and second-year medical students before they had received medical school instruction in clinical nutrition . Overall , the physicians answered 69 . 2 % of the questions correctly , a significantly better score than that of the medical students ( 62 . 5 %, p = . 0065 ). The physicians scored better on topics that have been the most heavily researched ( such as diet and coronary heart disease ) and worse on less heavily investigated topics ( such as diet and cancer , iron absorption ). There was no significant difference in overall knowledge in terms of gender or practice . However , a significant negative correlation was found between the number of years since graduation from medical school and respondents ' knowledge about nutrition .

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