TY - JOUR AU - Tawinkan, Korawit AU - Thanapongtorn, Chinuwat AU - Chaisena, Chuenkamol AU - Chatpaitoon, Boonyapohn AU - Kosuwon, Ploy AU - Teeramart, Wansadej AU - Bamrerraj, Saowanan AU - Boonjaraspinyo, Sirinthip PY - 2016/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Proportions of 6th Year Khon Kaen University Medical Students with Sufficient Knowledge of Medicolegal Autopsies and Reports JF - Srinagarind Medical Journal JA - SRIMEDJ VL - 31 IS - 5 SE - Abstract of Interesting DO - UR - https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/SRIMEDJ/article/view/68245 SP - 72 AB - <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Background and Objective:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;"> According to the Thai laws, physicians have duties to perform medicolegal autopsies and write reports. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate knowledge of the final year medical students in order to improve the forensics curriculum.  This study aimed to examine: 1) The proportions of 6</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> year Khon Kaen University medical students who had sufficient knowledge of medicolegal autopsies and reports; and 2) Factors associated with having knowledge of medicolegal autopsies and reports.</span></p><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Method:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;">  Descriptive study at Srinagarind hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. Study population: A total of 270 6</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> year medical Students, Khon Kaen University Tools: Self-administered online questionnaire. Analysis: SPSS v.19 and Epi Info v. 3.5.4 were used to analyze frequency, proportions, percentage, median, interquartile range, 95% confidence interval and analytic statistics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Results:</span></strong><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The response rate was 64.5%.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> The proportions of 6</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> year Khon Kaen University medical students who had knowledge</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> of both medicolegal autopsies and reports were</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> 20.1% (95% CI:14.4%, 26.8%), only medicolegal autopsies and reports were 52.3%( 95% CI: 44.6%, 59.9%) and 32.8%( 95% CI: 29.5%, 40.3%) respectively. The significant factors associated with having knowledge of medicolegal autopsies and reports were high GPA (p=0.012) and opportunities to do medicolegal autopsies (p =0.046).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Conclusion:</span></strong><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;">One-fifth of 6</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> year medical students had sufficient knowledge in medicolegal autopsies and reports. The significant </span><span style="font-size: medium;">factors associated with having knowledge of medicolegal autopsies and reports  were high GPA and opportunities to do medicolegal autopsies. </span></p> ER -