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Knowledge and Awareness Regarding Poison Information Centre among Medical Students

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Parmar P and Rathod G

Background

Every year, about half a million people die world-wide due to poisoning. A poison information center is a specialized unit that advises on or assists with, the prevention, diagnosis and management of poisoning. Currently, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology subject has been taught in 2^nd MBBS in India but topic of poison information centre is usually not given importance at undergraduate level and due to this reason we undertook present study to assess knowledge and awareness of 2^nd MBBS students regarding poison information centre.

Materials and Methods

Total 145 medical students of 2^nd MBBS were exposed to pre-tested and pre-validated Likert scale type questionnaire regarding knowledge a... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9841.1000152

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