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Perception of Specialist and Junior Doctors toward the Concept of Family Medicine | ||
| IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE | ||
| Article 1, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 88-93 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Riyadh K Lafta; Noora Abd Al-Hussein Dawood | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Family medicine has been particularly proactive in conceptualizing new, improved ways of health care delivery, despite its early promise; family medicine has struggled to realize its full potential as an exciting conceptual model for the practice of medicine in primary care settings. Objective: To explore the attitude of specialists and junior doctors working in teaching hospitals and Family medicine centers/ Al-Karkh health directorate towards the concept of Family medicine. Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out at three Family Centers (Al-Tobchii, Al-Mansour and Al-Salam) and two teaching hospitals (Al-Kadhmya and Al- Yarmouk ), over the period from May 2009 to July 2010. The study population included all specialists in the major clinical departments and junior doctors working in the teaching hospitals, in addition to the physicians working in the mentioned Family Centers. Data was obtained by using an already prepared self administered questionnaire. Results: A sample of 170 specialists and junior doctors participated in the study, 75% of them expressed positive attitude to the concept of family medicine. The most frequent services and skill perceived by the respondents to be effective in the development of the branch were Conference attendance (94%) and training in managing minor operations (93%). Surprisingly; 94% of the responded clinicians agreed that family health system limits the unnecessary referral from primary to secondary health care levels. The majority of the responded specialists (94%) expressed a positive attitude to the necessity of establishing updated national guidelines and regarded it as the main barrier towards the development of the branch. Most of the junior doctors (64%) do not have a will to adopt Family Medicine specialty as a medical career. Conclusion: Academic settings contributed substantially to the low appeal of being a primary care physician at a time when the primary care sector is widely recognized as the cornerstone of any health care system and when health authorities are struggling to initiate extensive primary care reforms, in addition the national guidelines perceived to be of great importance in organizing the interface between the primary and secondary levels. Keywords: Perception, Specialists, Juniors, Family Medicine | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Perception; Specialists; juniors; Family medicine | ||
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