Current Situation, Problems, and Strategies of Continuing Medical Education for Rural Order-oriented General Practitioners in Guizhou Province

Abstract

Background The competency in primary performance positions of rural order-oriented medical graduates of standardized general residency training program (abbreviate for oriented general practitioners) has attracted wide attention. Strengthening continuing medical education is an important measure to enhance the competency of oriented general practitioners. Objective To understand the current situation, problems and needs of continuing medical education for oriented general practitioners in Guizhou Province, and to provide a basis for improving continuing medical education for oriented general practitioners. Methods From November to December 2021, 42 oriented general practitioners from 39 township hospitals in 9 cities in Guizhou Province were selected as the research subjects for semi-structured interviews by the purposive sampling and snowball sampling methods. The interview results were coded and analyzed by the research method of procedural grounded theory to extract and summarize the current situation, problems and needs of their continuing medical education. Results After three-level coding, 145 concepts, 23 categories and 5 domains related to the continuing medical education of oriented general practitioners were finally sorted out, and a story line was consequenty formed: the continuing medical education of oriented general practitioners is influenced by several factors, among which actual situation is the obstacle, competency requirement is the extrinsic driver, policy system is important guarantee, self-demand is the intrinsic motivation, and the improvement of the training process management is the key process. Conclusion The training intention of oriented general practitioners remains to be strengthened in Guizhou Province. The quality of continuing medical education, integration degree of training content and demand, and attention of primary care institutions need to be improved. The support for continuing medical education and the construction of information platform should be strengthened, and the content and form of continuing medical education suitable for oriented general practitioners should be improved, in order to improve the quality and effect of training in continuing medical education.

Keywords

• general practitioners|target admission medical graduates|education, medical|health policy|health workforce|primary health care|grounded theory