Knowledge, Perceptions, and Attitudes of Medical Residents Towards Nanomedicine: Defining the Gap
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Medical Science Educator https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00837-8
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
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Knowledge, Perceptions, and Attitudes of Medical Residents Towards Nanomedicine: Defining the Gap Najib Nassani 1 & Youssef El-Douaihy 2 & Yana Khotsyna 2 & Thinzar Shwe 2 & Suzanne El-Sayegh 2
# International Association of Medical Science Educators 2019
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Abstract Even though the general public opinion towards nanotechnology applications to health has been studied, medical residents’ opinions remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perception, knowledge, and attitude of medical residents towards nanomedicine using a 35-item questionnaire. Correlations between intrinsic factors, heuristics, and attitude towards nanomedicine were analyzed using the χ2 test. Seventy medical residents participated. Nanomedicine was perceived as a developing field in its clinical trial stages. Responsibility for nanomedicine was attributed to scientists, whereas its ethical responsibility to physicians. The majority reported not having adequate access to information. A positive attitude towards nanomedicine was correlated with higher willingness to use nanomedicine to diagnose and treat patients (p < 0.05). Medical residents had a positive attitude towards nanomedicine. However, they lacked accurate knowledge in the field. Participants might have relied on availability heuristics to form their opinion. Formal education for the “handlers” of nanomedicine seems to be needed.
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Keywords Nanomedicine . Nanotechnology . Heuristics
Background
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Nanomedicine is a growing field and is emerging as a challenging one for medical professionals given its rapid expansion and the inability of physicians to keep up with its implications on 21st-century medicine. A PubMed search using the MeSH term “nanomedicine” yielded 19,424 results in 2018, while the same search, performed in 2008, identified 1128 publications. Nanotechnology is the science of structures remarkable for their size, with at least one dimension that is measured in the nanometer scale and up to 100 nm (10−9 m). This feature finds its use in medicine given that biological and living systems are of the same order of magnitude at the cellular level. The European Science Foundation
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* Najib Nassani [email protected] 1
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 840 S Wood St, Suite 718-E, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Department of Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, Staten Island University Hospital Northwell Health, Staten Island, NY 10305, USA
defines nanomedicine as being “the science and technology of diagnosing, treating and preventing disease and traumatic injury, of relieving pain, and of preserving and improving human health, using molecular tools and molecular knowledge of the human body” [1]. In other words, nanomedicine is the science of delivering
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