Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia

The purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modu...

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Autores principales: Alshammary, Sami Ayed, Ratnapalan, Savithiri, Akturk, Zekeriya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea 2013
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3831582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250833
http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2013.10.7
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description The purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modules each consisting of 12-14 hours of teaching to be delivered in 3 day blocks, over 45 days. Twenty percent (2,761) of all general practitioners participated in the FAME program. Initial assessment of the program showed significant improvement of knowledge from scores of 49% on a pre-test to 89% on post-tests. FAME program in Saudi Arabia facilitated primary care physicians’ knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-38315822013-11-18 Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia Alshammary, Sami Ayed Ratnapalan, Savithiri Akturk, Zekeriya J Educ Eval Health Prof Brief Report The purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modules each consisting of 12-14 hours of teaching to be delivered in 3 day blocks, over 45 days. Twenty percent (2,761) of all general practitioners participated in the FAME program. Initial assessment of the program showed significant improvement of knowledge from scores of 49% on a pre-test to 89% on post-tests. FAME program in Saudi Arabia facilitated primary care physicians’ knowledge. National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea 2013-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3831582/ /pubmed/24250833 http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2013.10.7 Text en ©2013, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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