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Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a global epidemic and a leading cause for increased mortality and morbidity. The prevalence of Diabetes is very high so the management of DM and its complication like diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is very crucial in today’s world. Medical students being the future pillars of our health care system were included in this study to know their knowledge towards diabetes and its acute complication DKA.Methods: This study was a questionnaire based observational study conducted in Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B G Nagara. Final year medical students and interns were included in the study.Results: A total of 150 (75 from each group) questionnaires were collected and analysed. Most of the final year students and interns were aware about the classical symptoms of diabetes (73.33% and 84% respectively) and were aware about the endocrine gland related to diabetes (82.6% and 94.6% respectively) however there were differences about the meaning of PPBS among both the groups. Interns (76%) had better knowledge regarding the fluid replacement in the management of DKA in compared to final year students (41.33%). There was statistically significant difference in knowledge between the two groups regarding GDM.Conclusions: This study identifies that both final year students and interns need to improve the practical knowledge towards diagnostic parameters of DM and treatment of DKA. Continous medical education programmes and workshops should be organised to enhance the knowledge towards DM and its complications.

Combination of two or more active ingredients in a fixed dose ratio is termed as fixed dose combination (FDC). Presently, there is lot of debate over rationality and irrationality of FDCs. This study was focused on medical undergraduates to evaluate the awareness about FDCs as these students are the future practitioners. Like two sides of each coin FDCs do have advantages & disadvantages and it"s up to the physician to misuse it or use it judiciously by maintaining the balance. The objective is to evaluate the awareness of Fixed dose combinations (FDCs) among 2 nd year medical students. A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among 2 nd year medical students of AIMS, B G Nagar. Total respondents were 134. Among them 57 participants (42.53%) are male and 77 participants (57.46%) are females. All the participants were within the age group of 19 to 21 years. The analysis of responses for assessing the awareness of students about FDCs, showed that students had a high level of awareness (>80%) regarding some of basic aspects related to FDCs like knowing the term (66.41%), their common use in prescription (67.91%), constitution of FDC (50%), providing benefits to patients by improving compliance (54.47%) and increasing therapeutic response (64.17%). However, students weren"t aware regarding the deeper scientific aspects of FDCs like need for similarity in pharmacokinetics of ingredient drugs (21.64%), rationality & approval status of FDCs available in market. Majority of the students are well aware about the basic concepts of FDCs and their usage; however they are lacking in deeper scientific concepts. It is imperative that the concept of FDCs should be emphasized in sufficient detail to these budding doctors by giving an educational intervention through an interactive lecture presentation; so that the awareness of the students can be increased substantially.

Abstract:To enhance successful communication, medical teachers are increasingly using teaching-learning media. To determine medical students' perception of blackboard(BB), overhead projector(OHP), Power Point Presentations(PPT) and there combination and to generate recommendations for their optimal use, a cross sectional questionnaire-based study was carried out among 5th semester medical students of the Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bidar. Students made a forced choice between the three media and combination on 21 questions regarding their advantages and disadvantages. Resulting data was analyzed using percentages. Combination of BB & PPT was rated as best in allowing interaction (41.86%) and helping recall (55.81%). The BB+PPT were the best in providing information point wise (56.51%). More subject matter could be covered per lecture fast through PPT (44.19%). BB+PPT were best in imparting clinical details (62.79%), but BB alone was sleep inducing (39.53%). Overall preferred teaching aid was BB+PPT (83.72%). BB+PPT were best for problem based teaching (58.14%); stresses on relevant and increases thinking and understanding ability (55.81% each). Better perception of diagrams and concept understanding is best with BB+PPT (58.14% each). Students enjoy the lecture delivered by combination of blackboard and power point presentation. The study suggests that the using best available combination of teaching-learning media could make the lecture more interesting. It encourages the students to be attentive and actively participate in gaining better knowledge and allows interaction to take the lecture to the next level of excellence in future.