Assessment of knowledge on pharmacotherapeutics among undergraduate medical students in a South Indian medical college

Authors

  • Surekha Palacherla Department of Pharmacology, Maharajah’s Institute of Medicine Sciences, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Bheemesh Naidu Mattam Department of Pharmacology, Maharajah’s Institute of Medicine Sciences, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Kodanda Ramu Burli Department of Pharmacology, Maharajah’s Institute of Medicine Sciences, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Sachidananda Moorthy Department of Pharmacology, Maharajah’s Institute of Medicine Sciences, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20202952

Keywords:

Rational drug use, Pharmacotherapeutics, Non-emergency, Emergency medical conditions

Abstract

Background: Pharmacotherapeutics knowledge is important for rational drug therapy. Assessment of knowledge on emergency and non-emergency medical conditions in medical students will be helpful to   develop a methodological approach in building knowledge on patient care and in improving quality of medical education.

Methods: It was a questionnaire based cross- sectional study conducted among undergraduate medical students in MIMS college after taking Institutional ethical committee permission. The students of final MBBS part-I and final MBBS part-II and house surgeons were given semi-structured questionnaires. It constitutes questions on awareness of pharmacotherapeutics of non-emergency (20) and emergency (8) medical conditions.

Results: Received a total of 284 responses, of them 43.32%, 39.43% and 17.25% are from final MBBS part-I, final MBBS part-II and house surgeons respectively. 48.1% students agreed that undergraduate training sufficient to confidently give a safe prescription to the patient. The overall knowledge of the students in pharmacotherapeutics relating to certain non-emergency conditions is found to be 64.89% and relating to emergency conditions, it is 62.98%.

Conclusions: Knowledge on emergency and non-emergency PT is moderate. Appropriate training programs are needed to improve this situation. Regular evaluative measures also help to overcome the present situation.

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2020-06-26

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Palacherla, S., Mattam, B. N., Burli, K. R., & Moorthy, S. (2020). Assessment of knowledge on pharmacotherapeutics among undergraduate medical students in a South Indian medical college. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 9(7), 1119–1123. https://doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20202952

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