Los estudiantes de medicina respaldan la medicina alternativa

Una nueva encuesta nacional encuentra que la mayoría de los estudiantes de medicina opina que el conocimiento sobre medicina complementaria y alternativa ayudaría a los médicos occidentales a hacer un mejor trabajo.

MIÉRCOLES, 20 de enero (HealthDay News/DrTango) -- Una nueva encuesta nacional encuentra que la mayoría de los estudiantes de medicina opina que el conocimiento sobre medicina complementaria y alternativa ayudaría a los médicos occidentales a hacer un mejor trabajo.

La medicina complementaria y alternativa o MCA incluye terapias como la acupuntura, el yoga, el masaje y los tratamientos herbales.

"Incluso con la alta prevalencia de uso de MCA hoy en día, la mayoría de médicos sigue sabiendo poco sobre las formas no convencionales de la medicina", aseguró Michael S. Goldstein, científico investigador principal de la Universidad de California en los Ángeles y primer autor del estudio, en un comunicado de prensa de la universidad. "Investigar las actitudes y conocimiento de los estudiantes de medicina nos ayudará a evaluar si esto podría cambiar en el futuro".

Los hallazgos aparecen en la edición en línea del 20 de enero de la revista Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Investigadores de la UCLA y de la Universidad de California en San Diego enviaron una encuesta de treinta preguntas a 126 facultades de medicina. Recibieron 1,770 respuestas completas, lo que representa alrededor de un tres por ciento de un conjunto de unos 68,000 estudiantes de medicina.

De los encuestados, el 77 por ciento afirmó que los pacientes se beneficiarían más si sus médicos conocieran la MCA además de la medicina occidental. Y 74 por ciento opinaba que una mezcla de medicina occidental y MCA es mejor que cualquier de las dos de forma independiente.

Artículo por HealthDay, traducido por Hispanicare

FUENTE: University of California, Los Angeles, news release, Jan. 20, 2010

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