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Background: Applying the ethics in practice is more essential than just learning it. Any sought of misconduct to the patient is not just an ethical issue but it will also degrade the professionalism and it brings a sense of insecurity in patients and this will slow down the progress of treatment. So it is not only important to avoid the ethical issues and misconduct but it is also necessary to stand against ethical issues that happen within the organization that may done by colleagues or higher authorities without any dilemma. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to find out the difficulties and dilemmas of the physiotherapist in ethical decision making and disclosing the misconduct of their colleagues without any hesitation. METHODOLOGY: A close ended questionnaire was used to assess the willingness of the student physiotherapist to expose the misconduct which might be an internal or external disclosure. The questionnaire consisted of two clinical scenarios which were most likely to arise in a work place. Each scenario consisted of 5 questions that rated the severity, likelihood of confronting, internal disclosure, external disclosure to the association and external disclosure to media. The scoring was based on five point likert scale. It was a study that was done with convenient sampling method. The questionnaire was given to 100 Physiotherapy students in Chennai of both the sexes who were willing to participate in the study. RESULT: From the statistical analysis, there is a significant difference obtained for the likelihood of reporting the manager's misconduct than colleague's misconduct. Also their willingness to report internally within the organization is greater than that of reporting externally to the association and to the media. CONCLUSION: Ethics being a part of Physiotherapy curriculum, these students have well understood the ethical and professional behavior and have good ethical acceptance. Hence we conclude that the students do understand the seriousness of any misconduct of a therapist to the patient and are willing to expose any misconduct they encounter to the internal or external environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Low back pain of pelvic girdle dysfunction origin is most prevalent among all age group,hence there is constant need of updates in diagnosis and therapeutic approaches,manual physiotherapy gained an adequate importance in addressing pelvic girdle dysfunctions,with an objective of understanding the awareness of pelvic girdle dysfunctions among the clinicians and students, a self-administered questionnaire was designed and administered in pre-conference workshop pelvic girdle dysfunction dogmas in diagnosis and approach at SRM college of physiotherapy SRM Institute of Science and technology Chennai India,based on the response and through the statistical analysis it was found that the awareness was lacking and there was also need to focus on the clinicians and student community towards pelvic girdle dysfunctions and its basics, this may be beneficial in enhancing better patient care services and evidence in framing up clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]