1Assistant Professor,
2Assistant Professor,
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Sidramappa Gouda Assistant Professor,
The principle objective of the medical profession is to render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of Profession and also to the humanity. Getting reward or financial gain or any kind of benefit is a subordinate consideration. Who so-ever chooses this profession, assumes the obligation to conduct himself in accordance with its ideals. A physician should be an upright man, instructed in the art of healings. He shall keep himself pure in character and be diligent in caring for the sick; he should be modest, sober, patient, prompt in discharging his duty without anxiety; conducting himself with propriety in his profession and in all the actions of his life.
To assess the knowledge among undergraduate medical students on medical ethics.
A cross sectional study was conducted on II year medical students of adhichuchanagiriinstitiute of medical science Karnataka in the month of november 2014 after obtaining the prior permission from the concerned authority. The data was collected by students using semi structured questionnaire.
In our study 35(29.7%) of the repondents were with the opinion that medical ethics is very important in their proffesion.118 respondents 62(52.5%) were males and 56 (47.5%) were females with mean age of 20 years. 76(64.4%)of the students were in favour of euthanasia in case of terminal illness which is against the medical ethical code of conduct.
Even though the medical ethics has been included in the syllabus of MBBs by Medical council of India the knowledge about the ethical issues was low among students. Hence there should be sufficient training classes, cME programmes, workshops, conferences to stress the importance of ethical practice and to make the doctors confident enough to deal the ethical dilemma themselves and to adopt principles for better professional efficiency.
Doctors, Ethics, MCI, Euthanasia, Legal
