Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia

The purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modu...

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Main Authors:	Sami Ayed Alshammary, Savithiri Ratnapalan, Zekeriya Akturk
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Korea Health Insurance Licensing Examination Institute 2013-08-01
Series:	Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
Subjects:	Primary care Family medicine Continuing medical education Implementation Physician education
Online Access:	http://www.jeehp.org/upload/jeehp-10-07.pdf

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spelling	doaj-948a0bdd0ca740439ea191919ef9a4222020-11-25T01:09:24ZengKorea Health Insurance Licensing Examination InstituteJournal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions1975-59372013-08-011010.3352/jeehp.2013.10.784Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi ArabiaSami Ayed Alshammary0Savithiri Ratnapalan1Zekeriya Akturk2 King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Family Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, CanadaThe purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modules each consisting of 12-14 hours of teaching to be delivered in 3 day blocks, over 45 days. Twenty percent (2,761) of all general practitioners participated in the FAME program. Initial assessment of the program showed significant improvement of knowledge from scores of 49% on a pre-test to 89% on post-tests. FAME program in Saudi Arabia facilitated primary care physicians’ knowledge.http://www.jeehp.org/upload/jeehp-10-07.pdfPrimary careFamily medicineContinuing medical educationImplementationPhysician education
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title	Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia
title_short	Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia
title_full	Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr	Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia
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publisher	Korea Health Insurance Licensing Examination Institute
series	Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
issn	1975-5937
publishDate	2013-08-01
description	The purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modules each consisting of 12-14 hours of teaching to be delivered in 3 day blocks, over 45 days. Twenty percent (2,761) of all general practitioners participated in the FAME program. Initial assessment of the program showed significant improvement of knowledge from scores of 49% on a pre-test to 89% on post-tests. FAME program in Saudi Arabia facilitated primary care physicians’ knowledge.
topic	Primary care Family medicine Continuing medical education Implementation Physician education
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Continuing medical education as a national strategy to improve access to primary care in Saudi Arabia

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