Abstract
Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Substance Use Among Canadian Medical Students
Highlights
Substance use is prevalent in medical students and physicians and has important implications for their personal health, training, and clinical practice.[1,2,3,4] there is a lack of recent, rigorous studies of medical student substance use from representative samples.[4]
The lifetime self-reported prevalence rates were 45.6% for cannabis, 8.3% for nonmedical prescription stimulant (NPS), and 6.8% for cigarettes; past-month excessive alcohol use was 46.4% (Table 1)
We found that male sex was associated with greater self-reported prevalence rates of all 4 substances
Summary
Substance use is prevalent in medical students and physicians and has important implications for their personal health, training, and clinical practice.[1,2,3,4] there is a lack of recent, rigorous studies of medical student substance use from representative samples.[4]. We explored whether substance use varied by medical student demographics and was associated with psychological morbidity
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