ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMONGST MEDICAL STUDENTS IN EDO STATE UNIVERSITY UZAIRUE, EDO STATE

Background; Student entrepreneurship offers young people a platform to develop their talents and gain experience in preparation for chances in the future, university education is diversifying and placing more of a focus on the overall experience than just academics. Objectives; to access knowledge, attitude, and practice of entrepreneurship amongst medical students in Edo State University uzairue. Methodology; this study adopts a cross-sectional descriptive design. A multistage sampling technique was used. A total of 316 respondents were interviewed for this research. A wellstructured questionnaire was utilized as a survey tool to obtain responses. Data was collected and analyzed using SPSS version 25. Results; respondents in this study were predominately females 198 (62.7%). Overall knowledge was found to be good 263 (83.2%), the overall attitude towards entrepreneurship was positive 263 (83.2%) but the practice of entrepreneurship was poor with 235 (74.4%) respondents who did not practice entrepreneurship. The association between the sex of the respondents and knowledge of entrepreneurship was statistically significant (p = 0.038). Forty-four (89.8%) respondents who had positive attitudes were in 200-level classes, this association was statistically significant (p = 0.002). The study also shows that there is a significant association (p = 0.001) between the attitude of respondents and their entrepreneurial practices. Conclusion; In this study, about 2/5th of the respondents had good knowledge of entrepreneurship, the majority of the respondents had positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship and a quarter of the respondents had entrepreneurial practices