PERCEPTION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS REGARDING MEDICAL ETHICS TEACHING IN THEIR CURRICULUM

BACKGROUND The research is conducted to determine the level of medical student's perception regarding medical ethics subject and what strategy should be used to convey the ethical knowledge in their practice. The effort is required for implementation of this course as a compulsory subject as students have shown great affinity towards this subject. OBJECTIVE To identify the perception of medical students regarding teaching of medical ethics in their curriculum. STUDY DESIGN & SAMPLING TECHNIQUE It is a cross sectional study. Students were selected through Simple Random Sampling. STUDY SETTINGS & PARTICIPANTS Data gathered through structured questionnaire distributed among private and Government medical universities. Collected data is analyzed on SPSS version 17. Percentages and frequencies are computed and chi-square test of significance is used to obtain the result. RESULTS Our study revealed that among 112 respondents 108 (96.4%) respondents considered education in medical ethics is important while 4 (3.6%) respondents said that education in medical ethics subject is not important. CONCLUSION It is concluded the medical students are really eager to learn more about medical ethics, they rated the overall course of subject medical ethics as good and helpful for their professional growth. The effort is required for implementation of this course as a compulsory subject as students have shown great affinity towards this subject.