TY - JOUR ID - 4947 TI - Medical Undergraduate Perception on the Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Survey Based Study at Different Levels of Curriculum JO - Future of Medical Education Journal JA - FMEJ LA - en SN - 2251-8347 AU - Kumar, Naveen AU - Aithal P, Ashwini AU - Nazri, Mohamad Nur Faiz bin Mohd AU - Habibullah, Muhammad Syafiq bin AU - Abd Karim, Nadia Nurulain binti AU - Norani, Amirah Husna binti AU - Noorha Wasma Putra, Nur Nazatul Amira binti AD - Department of Anatomy, Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal campus), Manipal University, Karnataka, India AD - MBBS students of Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal campus), Manipal University, Karnataka, India Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 8 EP - 11 KW - Autism spectrum disorder KW - Student Perception KW - Knowledge DO - 10.22038/fmej.2015.4947 N2 - Background: Sufficient and thorough knowledge in early recognition of symptoms and proper management of ASD is of utmost importance to medical graduates in the initial years of their learning in medical school. Their knowledge regarding ASD will be helpful when they become health care professionals as it will be easy for proper management of ASD. Our aim is to evaluate and analyze medical undergraduate student  Method: Total of 221 undergraduate medical students studying in Preclinical, para clinical and early clinical phase of MMMC, participated in this questionnaire based survey study.  Close ended questionnaire which was validated and proved to be reliable was given to students to assess their level of knowledge about ASD. Results of data were analyzed using SPSS software Results: Total mean score for the preclinical students was 5.91±2.90, for para-clinical it was 7.30±3.00 and that for clinical year students (students in 3rd year of medical school) it was 9.42±2.20 out of 14. The knowledge about ASD among the students significantly increased alongside their curricular levels (p<0.05). Conclusions: Overall knowledge of medical undergraduate students about the ASD at their preliminary curricular stages is inadequate. But, there was a significant improvement as their curriculum progresses which reflect the academic up gradation among the medical students and their positive attitude towards ASD.  UR - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_4947.html L1 - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_4947_5d0ae0e4aa41203b7d9b808f2befa047.pdf ER -