Is This a Drug? Answers From Medical Students in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Eastern India

摘要

IntroductionWorld Health Organization (WHO) defines what is drug and what is not. Second year MBBS students learn the principles of Pharmacology that they use in their later clinical practice life. The aim of the survey was to determine how medical students classify a range of preparations they might encounter in their professional lives and whether a brand name or a commercial preparation of a drug would influence their decision in the categorization of the preparation as a ‘drug’ or ‘not a drug’.