Journal of Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 2

Assessment of Knowledge Regarding Medicolegal Issues Among Surgeons in a Medical College in South India

  • Author:
  • Rajat Raghunath1, Latif Rajesh Johnson2*, Margaret Shanthi3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Published Online: Apr 25, 2022
  • Page Number: 153 to 156

1Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Christian Medical CollegeVellore, Tamil Nadu

2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Christian Medical CollegeVellore, Tamil Nadu

3Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Christian Medical CollegeVellore, Tamil Nadu

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Latif Rajesh Johnson Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Christian Medical CollegeVellore, Tamil Nadu. Contact : +91 9488484161, Email: latifrajesh@gmail.com

Online Published on 25 April, 2022.

Abstract

Clinical faculty are one of the pillars of undergraduate medical education. Clinicians are expected to be experts in consent and medicolegal issues in order to teach budding doctors the same. Teaching trainees to take proper consent and effective management of medicolegal cases has a major impact in making them competent doctors.

A questionnaire-based study was conducted among the faculty of department of Surgery to assess the level of knowledge regarding consent and medicolegal issues.

The faculty knowledge Regarding consent and medicolegal issues was unsatisfactory. The faculty should receive training with regards to consent and managing medicolegal issues so that they can impart proper training to the medical students.

Keywords

Consent, Surgery, Clinicians, Competent, Medico Legal, Undergraduate, Medical students