Objective: this study analyzed medicine students' knowledge regarding medical advertising on social media.
Method: this is a cross-sectional study carried out between January and May 2022 with 179 medical students from public and private institutions from Curitiba - PR, using a structured questionnaire with nine problem situations on medical advertising. It was established as "sufficient" knowledge ≥70% of the problem-situations based on current professional codes and resolutions.
Results: five questions had the highest percentage of correct answers resulting from the acquisition of knowledge from different sources. Most students did not learn about medical marketing in their undergraduate course (84.9%), having already shared patients' pictures on social media (89.9%), and fell the lack of discussions about medical advertising (96.6%).
Conclusion: there is a need to direct undergraduate education towards the ethical use of advertising in order to better prepare them for professional practice.
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