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Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess the possible mismatch of obstetrical skills between the training offered in Ecuadorian medical schools and the tasks required for compulsory rural service. SETTING: Primary care, rural health centres in Southern Ecuador. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 92 rec...

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Autores principales: Sánchez del Hierro, Galo, Remmen, Roy, Verhoeven, Veronique, Van Royen, Paul, Hendrickx, Kristin
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25082424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005759
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author Sánchez del Hierro, Galo
Remmen, Roy
Verhoeven, Veronique
Van Royen, Paul
Hendrickx, Kristin
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Remmen, Roy
Verhoeven, Veronique
Van Royen, Paul
Hendrickx, Kristin
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess the possible mismatch of obstetrical skills between the training offered in Ecuadorian medical schools and the tasks required for compulsory rural service. SETTING: Primary care, rural health centres in Southern Ecuador. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 92 recent graduated medical doctors during their compulsory rural year. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOMES MEASURES: A web-based survey was developed with 21 obstetrical skills. The questionnaire was sent to all rural doctors who work in Loja province, Southern Ecuador, at the Ministry of Health (n=92). WE MEASURED TWO CATEGORIES: ‘importance of skills in rural practice’ with a five-point Likert-type scale (1= strongly disagree; 5= strongly agree); and ‘clerkship experience’ using a nominal scale divided in five levels: level 1 (not seen, not performed) to level 5 (performed 10 times or more). Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r) was used to observe associations. RESULTS: A negative correlation was found in the skills: ‘episiotomy and repair’, ‘umbilical vein catheterisation’, ‘speculum examination’, ‘evaluation of cervical dilation during active labour’, ‘neonatal resuscitation’ and ‘vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery’. For instance ‘Episiotomy and repair’ is important (strongly agree and agree) to 100% of respondents, but in practice, only 38.9% of rural doctors performed the task three times and 8.3% only once during the internship, similar pattern is seen in the others. CONCLUSIONS: In this study we have noted the gap between the medical needs of populations in rural areas and training provided during the clerkship experiences of physicians during their rural service year. It is imperative to ensure that rural doctors are appropriately trained and skilled in the performance of routine obstetrical duties. This will help to decrease perinatal morbidity and mortality in rural Ecuador.
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spelling pubmed-41203722014-08-05 Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador Sánchez del Hierro, Galo Remmen, Roy Verhoeven, Veronique Van Royen, Paul Hendrickx, Kristin BMJ Open Medical Education and Training OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess the possible mismatch of obstetrical skills between the training offered in Ecuadorian medical schools and the tasks required for compulsory rural service. SETTING: Primary care, rural health centres in Southern Ecuador. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 92 recent graduated medical doctors during their compulsory rural year. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOMES MEASURES: A web-based survey was developed with 21 obstetrical skills. The questionnaire was sent to all rural doctors who work in Loja province, Southern Ecuador, at the Ministry of Health (n=92). WE MEASURED TWO CATEGORIES: ‘importance of skills in rural practice’ with a five-point Likert-type scale (1= strongly disagree; 5= strongly agree); and ‘clerkship experience’ using a nominal scale divided in five levels: level 1 (not seen, not performed) to level 5 (performed 10 times or more). Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r) was used to observe associations. RESULTS: A negative correlation was found in the skills: ‘episiotomy and repair’, ‘umbilical vein catheterisation’, ‘speculum examination’, ‘evaluation of cervical dilation during active labour’, ‘neonatal resuscitation’ and ‘vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery’. For instance ‘Episiotomy and repair’ is important (strongly agree and agree) to 100% of respondents, but in practice, only 38.9% of rural doctors performed the task three times and 8.3% only once during the internship, similar pattern is seen in the others. CONCLUSIONS: In this study we have noted the gap between the medical needs of populations in rural areas and training provided during the clerkship experiences of physicians during their rural service year. It is imperative to ensure that rural doctors are appropriately trained and skilled in the performance of routine obstetrical duties. This will help to decrease perinatal morbidity and mortality in rural Ecuador. BMJ Publishing Group 2014-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4120372/ /pubmed/25082424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005759 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Remmen, Roy
Verhoeven, Veronique
Van Royen, Paul
Hendrickx, Kristin
Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador
title Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador
title_full Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador
title_fullStr Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador
title_short Are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? A study from Ecuador
title_sort are recent graduates enough prepared to perform obstetric skills in their rural and compulsory year? a study from ecuador
topic Medical Education and Training
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25082424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005759
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