Saudi Journal of Pathology and Microbiology (SJPM)
Volume-4 | Issue-05 | 391-394
Original Research Article
Perception of II MBBS Students in Learning Medical Ethics - Need of the Hour
Priya Banthavi S, Anupriya A, Nivethitha T, Kamala E, Guru T. Arun, Prabhusaran N, Sunil Kumar R
Published : May 22, 2019
Abstract
Medical ethics is an important code for the clinical practitioners in order to understand public health interventions.
Various ethical dilemmas are observed in various environments thereby standardization of institutional policies and
regulations are not initiated. Thus this study was aimed to analyze the perception of learning medical ethics among
undergraduate medical students. A standardized, pre tested questionnaire was used to interpret the data thereby their
knowledge and attitude towards practicing medical ethics in their profession. As a result, 64.9% accepted the importance
of informed consent; most of them (95.3%) attended bioethics training programme. Social media (64.9%) play a vital role
in imparting knowledge about medical ethics than other sources. Most of the participants accepted that consent is
required for surgery alone than for investigations and medications. Further the corresponding author also conducting a
simple survey for assessing the knowledge among medical students resulting of clinical case records (73.7%) followed by
simulated patient interaction and multiple choice questions. This study is to be extended with more number of
participants with multiple institutional involvement and other medical disciplines to finalize the data.