<![CDATA[Introduction: Ethics is concerned with moral principles for the members of the medical profession in theirdealings with each other, their patients and the State. A physician must uphold dignity and honour of hisprofession. He must render service to humanity and should maintain good medical practices. A physicianmust provide highest quality assurance in patient care. Duties of physician towards sick include obligationto sick, must be patient while treating them. Its an era of litigation against medical professionals. Awareness,Knowledge of medical ethics during MBBS phase is need of the hour to prevent these.Aims & Objectives: • The study aims to assess Awareness, Knowledge and Attitude towards medical ethicsamong medical students in a teaching hospital.• To suggest and implement necessary changes in the medical curriculum like AETCOM module to trainthem & to focus on ethical practices.Materials and Methods: A Prospective, cross sectional questionnaire-based study was carried out amongmedical students of Saveetha Medical College hospital, Chennai. The Medical Students from Phase II &Phase III MBBS were approached and the questionnaires were sent to about 250 medical students, out ofwhich 216 responses were recorded & included in the study. Received responses/results were tabulated andstatistically analysed, depicted in observations.Conclusion: There are no potential risks in the study. Study helps to identify the amount of awareness ofmedical ethics among medical students and also to stress on the need for awareness programs on medicalethics. The medical students may not have sufficient knowledge towards medical ethics, need much trainingamong medical students through Value added courses on Ethics and AETCOM module of CBME curriculumin future throughout the curriculum.]]>
