An observational study to evaluate the knowledge of drug schedules among the 2nd year undergraduate medical students in a government medical college in South India

[1] The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules 1945 mainly highlights on the storage, sale, display, and prescription of drugs categorized under the different schedules.[u] The principal objective of this act is to ensure safety, effectiveness, and maintenance of standard quality of the rugs and cosmetic products sold in India. [8,9] Other than drugs, various surgical and medical devices, bandages, surgical dressings, disinfectant fluids, mechanical contraceptives (condoms), vaccines, various Ayurvedic, Siddha, Unani products, etc., are also included in different schedules. To assess the awareness about different drug schedules among health-care professionals and budding doctors to decrease the untoward side effects by the drugs, we tried to assess the knowledge among the 2nd year undergraduate medical students at Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalaburagi, regarding drug schedules. Warfarin causes multiple birth defects which was opined by 68% of the students, 70% of the students knew that methotrexate causes cleft palate along with multiple defects, and 62% of the students were aware that diethylstilbestrol causes cancer of the vagina or cervix belong to category X drugs.