TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical awareness of therapeutic drug monitoring among medical students—A descriptive cross-sectional study
AU - Vittalrao, Amberkar Mohanbabu
AU - Adhikarla, Aditya Kumar
AU - Holla, Sadhana N.
AU - Kamalkishore, Meena Kumari
AU - Kishore, Seema Kumari Kamal
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank all MBBS medical students from second, third, fourth year, and Interns for their utmost operation and reciprocating with their clarity of knowledge.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Amberkar Mohanbabu Vittalrao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - “A doctor without effective clinical skills is a dodo knowledge.” Today’s budding medical student is tomorrow’s prolific doctor and the pillar of the health care system. The objective was to determine the level of medical students’ knowledge on therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and create awareness. This study was an institutional-based, descriptive cross-sectional study among the medical students and interns using self-designed, experts validated TDM questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into Section A—Importance of TDM, Section B—Questions on the core concept, and Section C—On analysis, interpretation, measuring, monitoring, and limitations of TDM. We scored the outcomes for the framed positive and negative questions. On analyzing the grading of scores of students and interns, 11.3% (44/390) scored excellently, 59.5% (232/390) showed a good response, and 29.2% (114/390) reciprocated with a poor grade. We performed an analysis of responses of all three categories related to “most impactful and significant clinical concepts of TDM” requiring in-depth knowledge. The knowledge in medical students, including interns' stands average. The only way to improve this knowledge deficit by conducting well-designed training programs, implementing the concept of TDM so the students are made aware at the undergraduate level and become productive clinically.
AB - “A doctor without effective clinical skills is a dodo knowledge.” Today’s budding medical student is tomorrow’s prolific doctor and the pillar of the health care system. The objective was to determine the level of medical students’ knowledge on therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and create awareness. This study was an institutional-based, descriptive cross-sectional study among the medical students and interns using self-designed, experts validated TDM questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into Section A—Importance of TDM, Section B—Questions on the core concept, and Section C—On analysis, interpretation, measuring, monitoring, and limitations of TDM. We scored the outcomes for the framed positive and negative questions. On analyzing the grading of scores of students and interns, 11.3% (44/390) scored excellently, 59.5% (232/390) showed a good response, and 29.2% (114/390) reciprocated with a poor grade. We performed an analysis of responses of all three categories related to “most impactful and significant clinical concepts of TDM” requiring in-depth knowledge. The knowledge in medical students, including interns' stands average. The only way to improve this knowledge deficit by conducting well-designed training programs, implementing the concept of TDM so the students are made aware at the undergraduate level and become productive clinically.
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U2 - 10.7324/JAPS.2021.1101105
DO - 10.7324/JAPS.2021.1101105
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119498167
SN - 2231-3354
VL - 11
SP - 34
EP - 45
JO - Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science
JF - Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science
IS - 11
ER -