It is clear that the teaching of medical statistics needs to be improved, yet areas for priority are unclear
as medical students’ learning and application of statistics at different levels is not well known. Our goal
is to assess the attitudes of medical students toward the learning and application of medical statistics,
and discover their learning needs. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of learning and application of
medical statistics among graduates and undergraduates at a medical school in Chongqing. More than
70% of the medical students thought that the medical statistics course was as important as other medical
courses. Among them, 62.58% of graduate students thought that it was very hard to learn medical statistics,
whereas only 27.72% undergraduate students held the same opinion. Both graduates and undergraduates
stated that the main difficulties involved in learning medical statistics were its abstract principles
and the large quantity of concepts and formulas. In all, 70% of both graduates and undergraduates could
conduct a basic statistical analysis of general medical data independently, although undergraduates demonstrated
greater proficiency in applying basic statistical methods than did graduates (p

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• Attitudes of Medical Graduate and Undergraduate Students toward the Learning and Application of Medical Statistics

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