KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF INTERNS AND JUNIOR RESIDENTS TOWARDS THE IMPORTANCE AND PROCEDURE OF MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH RECORDS

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Dr. D. Madhu Sudhana Reddy
Dr. S. Lokanadham

Keywords

Medical documentation/ hospital records/ medico legal documentation.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION


Accurate Medical documentation helps in providing better health care to the patient and indirectly helps in protecting the doctor from negligence cases that arise due to improper medical records


AIMS & objectives



  1. To assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Perception of Interns & Junior Residents towards Importance of Medical Documentation and Health Records.

  2. To obtain perception of interns and junior residents regarding the implementation of medical documentation in the curriculum during Phase III part I of MBBS


METHODOLOGY:


The present study was carried out on interns and junior residents at Kurnool medical colleges and GGH after obtaining institutional ethic committee approval and written informed consent from the participants


A set of 20 questions on knowledge 10 on attitude and perception were given to the students who participated in the study, feedback was also obtained using a Likert’s scale.


The pre-test and post test results obtained were subjected too statistically analysis


RESULTS:


241 students out of 325 ( 200 and 125 ) participated in the present study, of which 146 (interns)  and 95 (Junior Resident) The present study has shown improvement in knowledge of medical documentation after the seminar. The perception and attitude of both interns and junior residents was good.


DISCUSSION:


Junior residents have better knowledge, perception and attitude when compared with the  interns  due to their experience.  While interns without any training have gained  sufficient knowledge on medical documentation after seminar


CONCLUSION


The participants in the present study has stated that teaching medical documentation will benefit the medical students during 3 mbbs phase 1 instead of foundation course

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Dr. D. Madhu Sudhana Reddy, & Dr. S. Lokanadham. (2024). KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF INTERNS AND JUNIOR RESIDENTS TOWARDS THE IMPORTANCE AND PROCEDURE OF MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH RECORDS. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 31(7), 2005-2018. https://doi.org/10.53555/aqvpkf37
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Author Biographies

Dr. D. Madhu Sudhana Reddy

Principal researcher, Assistant Professor, Dept of Forensic Medicine, ACSR Govt. Medical College SPSR Nellore

Dr. S. Lokanadham

Assistant Professor, Dept of Anatomy, Government Medical College, Adhoni

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Dr. D. Madhu Sudhana Reddy, & Dr. S. Lokanadham. (2024). KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF INTERNS AND JUNIOR RESIDENTS TOWARDS THE IMPORTANCE AND PROCEDURE OF MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH RECORDS. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 31(7), 2005-2018. https://doi.org/10.53555/aqvpkf37