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Effect of continuous professional development course of family medicine essentials on physician’s knowledge, skills, and attitude among primary healthcare physicians in Saudi Arabia

Authors

Al Baghli Nadira A.
Khan, Abdul Sattar
Almegbi, Tarek Ibrahim
Alrayess, Zulfa Ahmed
Al Ghamdi, Khalid
Altuwaijri, Abdulmohsen Ali
Ministry of Health ; , Department of Family and Community Medicine ;

J. Health Spec. 2015; 3 (3): 173-178
Journal of Health Specialties (JHS)
Journal Country: Saudi Arabia
P-ISSN: 1658-600X
Indexing Status : In Process
Citation: Nadira A. Al Baghli ,Abdul Sattar Khan ,Tarek Ibrahim Almegbi ,Zulfa Ahmed Alrayess ,Khalid Al Ghamdi ,Abdulmohsen Ali Altuwaijri , Effect of continuous professional development course of family medicine essentials on physician’s knowledge, skills, and attitude among primary healthcare physicians in Saudi Arabia, J. Health Spec. 2015; 3 (3): 173-178

Abstract English

Objective: This study was designed to measure the outcome of the continuous professional development [CPD] course [Family Medicine Essentials] conducted and organised by the Ministry of Health [MOH] on the knowledge, skills, and attitude of primary healthcare [PHC] physicians in patient care Materials and Methods: This study was based on pre- and post-implementation of training evaluation, which included the seven CPD modules in family medicine customised for non-certified family physicians working at MOH and PHCs in Saudi Arabia. The study was conducted from March 2009 to 2010 and it included 259 family physicians working in PHCs and MOH. The pre- and post-test scores for mean knowledge, skills and attitude were compared using paired t-test. P < 0.05 was considered significant Results: The results showed that the percentage of male participants [80.3%] was higher than females [19.7%] . The mean age of the participants was 39.6 +/- 8.0 years. A significant difference was found in pre- and post-test scores of PHC physicians' attitude, knowledge and skills. Attitude increased from 77.5 +/- 6.1 to 83.0 +/- 7.8 [P < 0.0001] , knowledge increased from 51.3 +/- 14.8 to 66.7 +/- 14.3 [P < 0.0001] while skills increased from 41.2 +/- 20.1 to 66.9 +/- 19.1 [P < 0.0001]

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