Strides in Development of Medical Education

The Evaluation of Social Medicine Training Programs from Point of View of General Practitioners

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Reza Ghadimi 1
Mahmoud Hajiahmadi 2
Aram Tirgar 3
Hossein Rashvand 4
Abdoleiman Amouei
Parvin Sajadi
Seyyed Reza Hosseini

1 PhD in Clinical Nutrition, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

2 MSc in Biostatistics, Instructor, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

3 PhD in Occupational Health, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

4 Medical Student, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Abstract
Background & Objective: Community oriented medical education has been considered by many universities The aim of this study was to determine the general practitioners (GPs) point of view regarding social medicine training programs (SMTP) Methods: This crosssectional study was conducted on GPs graduated from different Iranian medical Universities after 1985 in Babol Iran in 2010 Subjects were selected by simple randomized sampling method Data were gathered using a questionnaire consisting of three parts and analyzed using chisquare and Fishers exact tests by SPSS Results: In this study 130 GPs who had graduated 104 ± 57 years ago were evaluated Data showed some topics of SMTP like occupational health disease management executing a research project and presence in rural/urban health centers were more common in GPs graduated after 2001 in comparisons with counterpart group Moreover GPs who worked in rural health centers indicated to have more attention on mental health dental health elderly care disease management and social health assessment methods in curriculum of SMTP Conclusion: According to our findings mental and occupational health along with elderly care should be considered in social medicine curriculum of medical students Moreover appropriate revisions on SMTP and continuous education programs on these topics for GPs are recommended

Keywords

Education
Medical students
Social medicine training program
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Strides in Development of Medical Education
Volume 10, Issue 2
2013
Pages 158-165

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