Knowledge and Attitude of Medical Ethics among Under-graduate and Post-graduate Medical Students

Background: Nowadays medical practice is faced with innumerable number of challenges by the general public.The growing awareness about the consumer issues are making the medical practice more difficult and challenging.Awareness about the medical ethics by the practicing doctors is the need of the hour to face such challenges.This study was undertaken to study the knowledge of medical ethics in undergraduates and post graduates.Methodology: A cross sectional study was undertaken in 250 undergraduates and post graduates in Medical College.The data was collected by using survey questionnaire specially designed by inclusion of various aspects of medical ethics.The data thus obtained was analyzed by using Statistical Package of Social Services (SPSS VER.20).Results: This study had shown that, more than half of the undergraduates and post graduates felt that, the ethical issues and its knowledge is important.Clinical training was the main source of knowledge of medical issues.Majority of the post graduates had knowledge about different ethics related issues than the post graduates.Post graduates had significantly higher knowledge scores than the post graduates in this study. Conclusion:This study had shown that, the post graduates significantly had higher knowledge than the undergraduates.