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Abstract: This study has been undertaken to investigate awareness of occupational therapy among medical physicians with objective of evaluating the awareness of occupational therapy among the medical physicians The study was conducted over a period of 4 months. Totally 75 samples were selected for this study. This study was conducted among the medical practitioners to evaluate awareness about occupational therapy. For this study we used a questionnaire which expose occupational therapy awareness among physicians, This questionnaire contains 20 questions .in which 18 questions have the optional choice of right, wrong and no idea respectively. 2 questions are based on the general experience. According to this study what we realize is, there is less awareness about occupational therapy among general physicians. Even famous physicians who are all working in multi specialty hospitals do not know the role of occupational therapy in rehabilitation field. This shows lack of awareness about occupational therapy among physicians.