Awareness of Medico Legal Aspects of Clinical Practise and Common Medico Legal Issues among Medical Graduates

Abstract

Background: Medical practitioner is expected to have skills and knowledge in his field along with legalaspects of practise of Medicine, various medico legal issues and management of such issues. The study willhelp us to know the areas of weakness with regard to handling of medico legal issues among the medicalgraduates and can suggest remedial measures to improve the learning process.Method: Data will be collected by giving a printed questionnaire which consists of seventeen questionsrelated to basic knowledge of medico legal issues and its management. This will be done only after takingconsent. The participants are required to answer by agreeing or disagreeing the statements given or by givingsimple answers to the questions. Data will be analysed using Microsoft excel & SPSS Software and resultswill be presented with frequency and percentage and will be illustrated within charts and tables.120 medicalgraduates participated in the study and study showed an existence of gap in the learning and practicalknowledge about medical legal issues and its practise.Conclusion: Regular training to update the knowledge of medico-legal issues is necessary to ensurecontinuous improvement of the quality of health care delivery and better administration of justice.