Attitude of chest physicians working in provinces toward continuous medical education
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Tarih
2013
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Derman Medical Publishing
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Aim: Continuing medical education (CME) including the life long post-graduate training considered very important and serious work done in this direction worldwide. In Turkey, CME workshop was done by the Turkish Medical Association in 1991 firstly and CME credit board has been created in 1994. We aimed to determine approachments and status of the pulmonologists on CME, in Turkey. Material and Method: The cross-sectional, questionnairebased study was carried out among pulmonologists working in state or chest disease hospitals in Turkey. 130 pulmonologists in 36 provinces those did not work in training hospitals invited to participate to study. Results: Response rate was 54.6%. 28.2% of the participants had been participating to post-graduate education activities regularly. The participants that followup a publication and a web site about their specialty on a regular basis were 58.8% and 63.5%; respectively. 58.8% of the physicians sometimes feel themselves regressed in their profession and 72.9% of them request for rotation to training and research hospitals to develop themselves in professional respect. Discussion: In conclusion, not yet fully evolved concept of CME in our country threatens the quality of healthcare, and indirectly, safety of the physician. There are needs to be done as well as those made of.
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Continuing; Education; Medical
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Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine
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4
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5
