"Three Medical Schools' Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Effect on Students' Knowledge and Attitudes."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Academic Medicine, "Purpose: To assess the relative importances of factors influenceable by the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), such as didactic and clinical training, and the number of HIV-infected individuals known personally, on students' HIV-related knowledge and attitudes. Method: A survey was undertaken of the classes of 1991 and 1994 at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. The questionnaire contained 40 knowledge questions, 20...

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