The assessment of physicians’ knowledge of community-acquired pneumonia basics: KNOCAP study

Pharmacotherapy and other aspects of senior medical students’ knowledge in community-acquired pneumonia: the final results of the KNOCAP II project

“…The students had to choose one or more pathogens, which, in their opinion, are the most common pathogens of CAP or write their own version. According to the current clinical guidelines (Russian Respiratory Society 2018; Bontsevich et al 2019b), the most common causative agent of CAP is S. pneumoniae, this answer was the only true one. The correct answer was given by 33.5% of the respondents, 47.7% answered partially correctly, indicating several pathogens along with S. pneumonia, 18.8% answered incorrectly.…”

“…The multicenter KNOCAP study (the full name of the project is "The Assessment of Physician' and Students' Knowledge of Community-acquired Pneumonia Basics") presents the results of an anonymous prospective survey on the assessment of senior medical students' knowledge in matters of the diagnosis, treatment, prevention of CAP and also their accordance with the modern clinical guidelines (Bontsevich et al 2015(Bontsevich et al , 2017Russian Respiratory Society 2018). According to the outcomes of the second stage of this study (2017)(2018)(2019), the results of a survey of 394 senior medical students from 8 centers of Russia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan were obtained and analyzed.…”

Are pediatricians familiar with hereditary angioedema?

“…A multicentric study conducted in Russia and Ukraine tested doctors’ knowledge about community acquired pneumonia, a non-rare disease, and reported a mean of 49.6% correct answers by 255 participants. 15 Similarly, in an evaluation on anaphylaxis in emergency rooms, the level of medical knowledge was 44.3%. 16 These levels of medical knowledge are far below expected, which also occurs in HAE.…”

Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society 2019: Worthy Participation of the Ukrainian Scientists

“…Доцент кафедри педіатрії № 3 та неонатології Дніпро петровської медичної академії МОЗ України Шварацька О. В. представляла на Конгресі усну доповідь -«Dynamics of serum interferons and Th2type interleukins during viral upper respiratory tract infections in pediatric asthmatic patients (Динаміка сироваткових інтерферонів та інтерлейкінів типу Th2 при вірусних інфекціях верхніх дихальних шляхів у хворих на астму дітей)» [54]. Також вчені із Дніпра подали на Конгрес три праці з проблем медичної освіти [9,10,11].…”