Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Introduction and Aim: Irrational drug use causes numerous health problems such as treatment failure, drug-drug interactions and resistance development.Although efficiency of early rational drug use (RDU) education on future doctors is emphasized, studies about this subject is inadequate. Purpose of this study is to determine knowledge, opinion and behaviors of Marmara University School of Medicine (MUSM) pre-clinic students related with RDU.

Methods: Questionnaire containing demographic and multiple choice questions and consisting of 41 questions which depends on literature was performed to 1st, 2nd and 3th grade students of MUSM in this observational and descriptive study without using sampling methods. Four hundered and twelve results are achieved of 600 participants.Data of survey is analyzed by using SPSS v20.0, frequencies and mean values were calculated, in compearative analysis, chi-square and independent t-test were used.Statistical significancy was accepted as p

Key words: rationaldruguse, medical education, medical student