Colour blindness among medical students in Faculty of Medicine

This was conducted by 3 medical students as their elective project to find out the presence of colour blindness among medical students of UCFM

Name of the Researchers

1. G.M. Jayasena
2. I.I.M Kodippili
3. N.C. Galappaththi
4. Dr. Mangala Gunatilake

Contact details of the researcher

• mangalag@physiol.cmb.ac.lk

Related Publications

Extended abstract – Prevalence of colour blindness and its impact on medical students in Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ganga M Jayasena, Mangala Gunatilake and M Maduwanthi Dissanayake Proceedings of the International Conference of Japanese Graduates’ Alumni Association of Sri Lanka, held in Sri Lanka in 2016; 153-156 (OP. 6)

Communications

1. Effects of colour blindness in medical students in the faculty of medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka Ganga M.Jayasena, Maduwanthi M.Dissanayake, Mangala Gunatilake,Koddippili I.I.H, Galappaththi NC Proceedings of the 7^th Federation of Asian Oceanian Physiological Societies  Congress held in Taipei, Taiwan, 2011; P-R04, 351.
2. Methods used to overcome the difficulties by medical students with defective colour vision in the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Jayasena Ganga M, Koddippili Inoma I.H, Galappaththi Nadeesha.C, Dissanayake Maduwanthi.M, Gunatilake Mangala 87^th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan.The Journal of Physiological Sciences, 2010, volume 60 (Suppl. 1): P382 (3P-J-58).
3. Colour blindness among medical students in Faculty of Medicine, Colombo.Jayasena.G.M, Kodippili I.I.H, Galappatthi.N.C, Dissanayake.M.M and Gunatilake.M Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the Physiological Society of Sri Lanka, 2009, FP10, p.17.