Due to the ageing population and the growing number of elderly people with dementia, soon, most physicians are likely to encounter more and more people with dementia in their work. Therefore, there is an urgent need in the world to improve undergraduate medical education on dementia and the skills of health professionals to competently care for people with dementia in hospitals and the community. The main goal of this research was to determine attitudes towards working with people with dementia and the knowledge about dementia among final year students of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. The paper-and-pencil questionnaire included six categories of questions on sociodemographic data (I.), success during medical studies (II.), personal interests (III.), personal attitudes towards dementia and experiences with people with dementia (IV.), dementia knowledge exam (V.) and personal opinion on the prevalence of dementia in the undergraduate curriculum (VI.). The research included 231 students, which is 81.9 % of the total number of sixth-year students at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Students have relatively neutral attitudes towards working with people with dementia and a rather poor theoretical knowledge in the dementia knowledge exam. Students showed the best theoretical knowledge about the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, while their knowledge was the weakest in the field of differential diagnoses, epidemiology and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Every 11th sixth-year medical student has never had contact with a person with dementia. Most students believe that medical students should spend more time with people with dementia during their medical education and that there are too few classes in the field of dementia at the School of Medicine. The higher grade point average in the study and the higher grade in Neurology are significantly related to the better result achieved in our dementia knowledge exam. The results of this study point to the need to broaden the current educational program that will enrich student practice with better education about dementia and greater contact with people with dementia.