Zhongguo quanke yixue (Dec 2023)

Exploration and Differential Analysis of Continuing Education of General Practitioners' Clinical Thinking Ability Based on Working Competence

  • ZHANG Hanzhi, GE Xuhua, LU Yuan, JIN Hua, GUO Aizhen, CHEN Yuge, MA Linlin, PAN Ying, YU Dehua

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2022.0565
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 34
pp. 4315 – 4321

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Background The current training content of continuing education in general practice cannot meet the needs of clinical practice, as well as the lacking of thinking and characteristics of general practice in teaching faculty and evaluation methods. Objective To explore the training of clinical thinking in general practice through continuing education, so as to solve practical problems and improve working competence of general practitioners (GPs) . Methods The design of the 8th GPs' practice ability training workshop course was optimized based on the literature reading and feedback from the continuing education course of GPs' practice ability workshop in November 2020, and a questionnaire survey was conducted through the "wenjuanxing" platform among 200 GPs who participated in the 8th workshop course to evaluate the overall and various levels of improvement in their clinical thinking ability and working competence. Results A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed, and 172 valid questionnaires were collected, with a recovery rate of 86.0%. After the training, 52.3% (90/172) and 21.5% (37/172) of the GPs had improved and greatly improved their overall clinical thinking ability in general practice, respectively, and 56.4% (97/172) and 22.1% (38/172) showed improvement and great improvement in overall working competence. There was a statistically significant difference in the improvement of clinical thinking ability and working competence among GPs with different professional titles and job types after training (P<0.05). There were 134 (77.9%), 134 (77.9%), 133 (77.3%), 127 (73.8%), 114 (66.3%) GPs who believed that "reading images" "clinical thinking ability in general practice" "interpretation of test indicators" "diagnosis and treatment of common dermatological and pentacologic diseases" and "scientific research training" could significantly improve the working competence of GPs. There were significant differences in the improvement of working competence by the course on "reading images" "clinical thingking ability in general practice" "diagnosis and treatment of common dermatological and pentacologic diseases" among GPs with different professional titles and job types (P<0.05). There was significant difference in the improvement of working competence by "scientific research" training course section in GPs of different genders (P<0.05) . Conclusion Optimized continuing education of general practice has a significant effect on the clinical thinking and working competence of GPs. In the design of training to improve the clinical thinking and working competence of GPs, it is also necessary to pay attention to the integration of various types of knowledge and skills in the training, and the practice experience base and accumulation of the trainees.

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