. Athar Omid; . Batool Eghbali; . Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard; . Vahid Ashoorion
Volume 5, Issue 2 , March 2015, , Pages 1-4
Abstract
Context: General practitioners should be competent to be accountable for patients’ needs,but they do not acquire core competencies during education in medical schools. Aims: Thisstudy ...
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Context: General practitioners should be competent to be accountable for patients’ needs,but they do not acquire core competencies during education in medical schools. Aims: Thisstudy was aimed at determine the most usual obstetric and gynecological as well as pediatricdiseases in rural and urban care centers in Isfahan province. Settings and Design: This is across‑sectional descriptive study which was done in Isfahan province in 2011. Sixty‑four physicians(general practitioners) in rural and urban health care centers in Isfahan province participated inthis study. Subjects and Methods: Participants completed valid and reliable questionnaires forgynecological/obstetric and pediatric diseases. These questionnaires included some demographicdata and diseases of each category (according to general medicine curriculum). Scales 1‑5 foreach disease referral times was determined respectively as: Rare, sometimes, weekly to monthly,daily to weekly and daily. Statistical Analysis Used: The data were descriptively analyzed bySPSS 11.5(SPSS Inc. in Chicago). Results: Nearly 43.7% of participants were male. The meanage of participants was 39.0 ± 7.0 and their mean working experience was 11.3 ± 5.9 years. Thehighest referral times’ score in rural and urban care centers in gynecological and obstetric groupwas vaginal discharge; in pediatrics, it was the common cold. Conclusions: In this study, theextent to which general practitioners encountered different gynecological/obstetric and pediatricdiseases in rural and urban care centers in Isfahan province was determined. Although, thesedata are useful for decision makers to establish medical core curriculum, other factors such asseasonal load of diseases should also be observed to determine the differences between ruraland urban care centers in most usual diseases of women and children.
