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Capacity evaluation for general practitioners in Pudong new area of Shanghai: an empirical study

BACKGROUND: Building highly qualified General Practitioners (GPs) is key to the development of primary health care. It’s therefore urgent to ensure the GPs’ quality service under the background of the new round of health care system reforms in China. A new model of GP qualification examination was o...

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Autores principales: Li, Ming, Shu, Zhiqun, Huang, Xuan, Du, Zhaohui, Wu, Jun, Xia, Qingshi, Liu, Kun, Lou, Jiquan, Jing, Limei
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0484-8
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author Li, Ming
Shu, Zhiqun
Huang, Xuan
Du, Zhaohui
Wu, Jun
Xia, Qingshi
Liu, Kun
Lou, Jiquan
Jing, Limei
author_facet Li, Ming
Shu, Zhiqun
Huang, Xuan
Du, Zhaohui
Wu, Jun
Xia, Qingshi
Liu, Kun
Lou, Jiquan
Jing, Limei
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description BACKGROUND: Building highly qualified General Practitioners (GPs) is key to the development of primary health care. It’s therefore urgent to ensure the GPs’ quality service under the background of the new round of health care system reforms in China. A new model of GP qualification examination was originally implemented in Pudong New Area of Shanghai, China, which aimed to empirically evaluate the GPs’ capability in terms of clinical performance and social recognition. In the current study, an analysis was made of the first two years (2014–2015) of such theoretical and practical examinations on the GPs there with a view to getting a deep insight into the GP community so as to identify the barriers to such a form of GP qualification examination. METHODS: The agency survey method was applied to the two-year database of the GP examinees, the formative research conducted to explore the key elements for developing the examination model. The data analysis was performed with SPSS for Windows (Version 19.0) to describe the GPs’ overall characteristics, and to make comparisons between different groups. RESULTS: In 2015, the total number of GPs was 1264 in the area, in different districts of which, statistically significant differences were found in sex, age, professional title and employment span (P < 0.05). Such results were found to be similar to those in 2014. The examinees’ theoretical scores were statistically different (F = 7.76; P < 0.05), showing a sloping trend from the urban district to the suburban, to the rural and then to the farther rural, as indicated by LSD-t test (P < 0.05). From the theoretical examinations the scores were higher on the western medicine than on the traditional Chinese medicine (F = 22.11; P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: As suggested by the current study on the GPs’ qualification examination, which was pioneered in Pudong New Area of Shanghai, the construction of GP community was far from sufficient. It was a preliminary study and further studies are merited along the construction and development in terms of continuing medical education, performance appraisal and incentive mechanism.
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spelling pubmed-51268052016-12-08 Capacity evaluation for general practitioners in Pudong new area of Shanghai: an empirical study Li, Ming Shu, Zhiqun Huang, Xuan Du, Zhaohui Wu, Jun Xia, Qingshi Liu, Kun Lou, Jiquan Jing, Limei Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: Building highly qualified General Practitioners (GPs) is key to the development of primary health care. It’s therefore urgent to ensure the GPs’ quality service under the background of the new round of health care system reforms in China. A new model of GP qualification examination was originally implemented in Pudong New Area of Shanghai, China, which aimed to empirically evaluate the GPs’ capability in terms of clinical performance and social recognition. In the current study, an analysis was made of the first two years (2014–2015) of such theoretical and practical examinations on the GPs there with a view to getting a deep insight into the GP community so as to identify the barriers to such a form of GP qualification examination. METHODS: The agency survey method was applied to the two-year database of the GP examinees, the formative research conducted to explore the key elements for developing the examination model. The data analysis was performed with SPSS for Windows (Version 19.0) to describe the GPs’ overall characteristics, and to make comparisons between different groups. RESULTS: In 2015, the total number of GPs was 1264 in the area, in different districts of which, statistically significant differences were found in sex, age, professional title and employment span (P < 0.05). Such results were found to be similar to those in 2014. The examinees’ theoretical scores were statistically different (F = 7.76; P < 0.05), showing a sloping trend from the urban district to the suburban, to the rural and then to the farther rural, as indicated by LSD-t test (P < 0.05). From the theoretical examinations the scores were higher on the western medicine than on the traditional Chinese medicine (F = 22.11; P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: As suggested by the current study on the GPs’ qualification examination, which was pioneered in Pudong New Area of Shanghai, the construction of GP community was far from sufficient. It was a preliminary study and further studies are merited along the construction and development in terms of continuing medical education, performance appraisal and incentive mechanism. BioMed Central 2016-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5126805/ /pubmed/27894308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0484-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Shu, Zhiqun
Huang, Xuan
Du, Zhaohui
Wu, Jun
Xia, Qingshi
Liu, Kun
Lou, Jiquan
Jing, Limei
Capacity evaluation for general practitioners in Pudong new area of Shanghai: an empirical study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0484-8
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