Original Research Article. 22 | Page Int J Med Res Prof.2019 Mar; 5(2); 22-27. www.ijmrp.com Development and Introduction of Module on Medical Ethics in Patient Care To 2 nd Professional MBBS Students Gurleen Kaur 1 , Jaspreet Singh 2* , Karanpreet Bhutani 3 , Naresh Jyoti Delmotra 4 , Adish Goyal 5 1 Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Adesh Medical College & Hospital, Shahabad (M), Haryana, India. (Ex-Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College & Hospital, Banur, Punjab, India) 2* Medical Officer, AP Jain Civil Hospital, Rajpura, Punjab, India. 3 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, MM Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Ambala, Haryana, India. 4 Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacology, Adesh Medical College & Hospital, Shahabad (M), Haryana, India. 5 Ex-Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Gian Sagar Medical College & Hospital, Banur, Punjab, India. ABSTRACT Background: There is complete absence of teaching of ethics as a part of medical curriculum. There is now an urgent need to teach ethics to medical graduates in India because of increasing incidence of disconnect between doctors and patients leading to allegations like unethical treatment practices by doctors and use of force by patients and relatives against doctors. Medical Council of India (MCI) has also realized the urgency to impart the training of ethics to medical graduates in India as described in its Vision-2015 document. Aim and Objectives: To develop a module on “Medical Ethics in patient care” and to assess its feasibility. Methodology: The study was conducted in the Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Punjab from the period of March 2017 to December, 2017 after IEC approval. The topics to be covered in the module for teaching “Medical ethics in patient care” were finalized through Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with the core faculty and the members of Medical Education Unit (MEU). A module for teaching Medical ethics in patient care was developed. Module was of 10 hours’ duration and involved interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentations, case-based learning as the most common teaching-learning methods. Along with the module, pre-post-test questionnaire to assess the improvement in the knowledge of students was developed and validated. Feedback questionnaires, based on 5-point-Likert scale, were developed and validated to know the students’ perception regarding the teaching of medical ethics and faculty’s perception on the effectiveness of the module. A pilot run of the module was conducted on 15 students of 2 nd Prof MBBS to determine the feasibility of the module. Pre-post-test questionnaires were administered to the students and the feedback taken from the students and the participating faculty. Findings: A module on medical ethics on patient care was developed and validated. There was significant improvement in knowledge of the students as evident from their pre and post- test scores (10.47 to 25.47). The improvement in knowledge of various aspects of medical ethics was also calculated. There was a statistically significant improvement in knowledge in all sessions. The observations of the qualitative data analyzed from the feedback given by the students revealed that they found it useful and relevant and would implement the knowledge gained. Conclusions: The feedback of the students and the faculty was very positive and encouraging. The development of this module would help in teaching the 2 nd Prof students in medical ethics, which would be helpful to them in clinics and life-long. The seed of medical ethics would help grow a tree of good doctor-patient relationship which would ultimately help to grow health of the society. Keywords: Medical Ethics, Module, 2 nd Professional Students. *Correspondence to: Dr. Jaspreet Singh, Medical Officer, AP Jain Civil Hospital, Rajpura, Punjab, India. Article History: Received: 22-01-2019, Revised: 19-02-2019, Accepted: 18-03-2019 Access this article online Website: www.ijmrp.com Quick Response code DOI: 10.21276/ijmrp.2019.5.2.006 INTRODUCTION Ethics is defining and defending the concept of right and wrong. Medical ethics is a rather young academic field that is emerging as a moral enterprise against the background of the revival of applied ethics in the second half of the 20 th century. 1,2 Medical ethics is the extrapolation of ethics for its use in patient care. There are four pillars which build up the concept of medical ethics-autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. 3 The principles of medical ethics, derived from Hippocratic oath, are