ARE THE UNDERGRADUTE MEDICAL STUDENTS WELL- INFORMED OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION?

Abstract

Awareness of organ transplant is very low in the general population. Even though the media, the local
government, NGOs, hospitals, doctors and paramedical staff are consistent in their effort to bring much
more widespread and effective willingness and sense of responsibility in common people regarding organ
donation, they have not been able to reach the expected level. Even millions of students around the globe
who join medical courses are also not much aware of organ donation. A survey of awareness of Brazilian
transplantation law revealed that only 51% medical students heard about it, 47.3% were unaware and only
1.7% of them knew the law in detail (1)