TY - JOUR AU - Palacherla, Surekha AU - Mattam, Bheemesh Naidu AU - Burli, Kodanda Ramu AU - Moorthy, Sachidananda PY - 2020/06/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Assessment of knowledge on pharmacotherapeutics among undergraduate medical students in a South Indian medical college JF - International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology JA - Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol VL - 9 IS - 7 SE - Original Research Articles DO - 10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20202952 UR - https://www.ijbcp.com/index.php/ijbcp/article/view/3967 SP - 1119-1123 AB - <p><strong>Background: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> 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.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> 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%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> 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.</p> ER -