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Family Medicine Residency Program in
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Residents Opinion
Khalid A. Bin Abdulrahman, Ahmed Al-Dakheel
ABSTRACT
Background & Objectives: Medical Education continues to improve the outpatient settings; the future of both family physician and specialty of family practice will depend entirely on the quality of care which the patients receive. The initial stage of this process is its effective residency and periodical evaluation of the program. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the resident’s views about their training experiences in family medicine clinical attachment and community medicine course.
Methods: Questionnaire based study was conducted in family medicine training centers across the six cities representing all the regions of the Saudi Arabia. Questionnaire consists of family medicine clinical attachment & community medicine course, 139 trainees formed the sample size.
Results: About 85% of the residents believe that they should have a half day clinical attachment in family medicine training center every week throughout the whole program, 43% claimed that they do not have enough time for case discussion with their supervisor. Forty percent residents were not closely supervised by full time trainer; 60% believe that they were treated as service residents rather than trainees in family medicine. In addition, 64% stated that their training centers do not carry video camera facilities for training purposes and 74% believe that the community medicine course should be run by family medicine and community medicine trainers rather than community medicine alone. Furthermore, 50% prefer intergrated course rather than block system and 59% believe that the easily accessible facilities were available such as library, internet, audio-visual aids and 42% thought that their centers were not supported by enough numbers of full time trainers.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that, it is the time to evaluate the curriculum of Saudi family medicine training program. Based on the resident’s believes, immediate actions have to be taken to improve the clinical supervision, provide enough and qualified trainers for clinical teaching and evaluate the training centers and its ability to be optimal training centers rather than service centers.
Key words: Family Medicine, Residents attitude, Saudi Arabia.
Pak J Med Sci July - September 2006 Vol. 22 No. 3 250-257
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