Evaluation of knowledge regarding COVID-19 in the doctors - A cross sectional study in a tertiary care centre of Maharashtra

• Main Authors: Kotnis SD, Sancheti PV
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: KIMS Foundation and Research Center 2020-12-01
• Series: Journal of Medical and Scientific Research
• Subjects: covid-19; doctors; igot training; sars-cov-2
• Online Access: http://jmsronline.com/article.aspx?ID=Evaluation-of-knowledge-regarding-COVID-19-in-the-doctors

Training of human resources is immensely important as COVID-19 is a new disease and impact of the disease is high in shorter time span. With this view, Government of India initiated Integrated Government Online Training (iGOT) platform for training of human resources. iGOT training was imparted to all doctors, residents. The present study was conducted with an aim to evaluate the knowledge of doctors regarding COVID-19. All delegates (Total 88) were invited to join a social media group which was utilised to circulate the questionnaire. More stress should be given in the training on precautions to be taken triage areas, sample collection and transfer, and management in antenatal, postnatal and paediatric age group. The iGOT training was useful for capacity building.