Study of Knowledge and Attitude Towards Professionalism and Ethics in Medical Practice among Medical Students Naikker Ugashni1, Sriperumbuduru Venkata Pavan Kumar2,*, Fu Gan Quan3, Dalayi Navajyothi4 1Final BMS Student, Unit of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia 2Senior Lecturer, Unit of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia 3Lecturer, Unit of Anatomy, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long, Malaysia 4Senior Lecturer, Unit of Anatomy, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia *Corresponding author: Dr. Venkata Pavan Kumar Sriperumbuduru, Senior Lecturer, Unit of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Email. drpawansp@gmail.com, Contact number: +60 109734525
Online published on 7 May, 2019. Abstract This research is on ‘Study the knowledge and attitude of professionalism in medical practice among medical students in MSU”. The cause of their poor professionalism will be found out. Next is, why professionalism is not taught as a subject in the medical curriculum. In this research, how can professionalism be induced in students and taking professionalism as a compulsory subject will be discussed. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 384 respondents from year three to year five MBBS students. The questionnaires have four parts which included regarding demographic profile, assessing the knowledge; evaluate attitude and lastly how professionalism is implemented in university and how students want it to be implemented. The data were analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19.0 via descriptive statistics and correlation. The p-value in correlation must less than 0.05. In overall, the data have shown that students have high knowledge and attitude in professionalism and the direction of the relationship is positive as knowledge and attitude are positively correlated where the p-value is 0.002 and its less than 0.05. So, as the knowledge increases, the attitude increases as well. Besides that, the majority of the students where 149 of them with the percentage of 38.8% wants professionalism to be implemented by having more campaigns on how to develop professionalism. As a conclusion, knowledge and attitude of professionalism in medical practice is high among medical students and there is an association between knowledge and professionalism in medical practice among medical students. As knowledge increases, attitude will also increase. Top Keywords Professionalism in medical practice, Ethics in the medical curriculum. Top |