The Evaluation of Social Medicine Training Programs from Point of View of General Practitioners

Background & Objective: Community oriented medical education has been considered by many universities The aim of this study was to determine the general practitioners (GPs) point of view regarding social medicine training programs (SMTP) Methods: This crosssectional study was conducted on GPs graduated from different Iranian medical Universities after ۱۹۸۵ in Babol Iran in ۲۰۱۰ Subjects were selected by simple randomized sampling method Data were gathered using a questionnaire consisting of three parts and analyzed using chisquare and Fishers exact tests by SPSS Results: In this study ۱۳۰ GPs who had graduated ۱۰۴ ± ۵۷ years ago were evaluated Data showed some topics of SMTP like occupational health disease management executing a research project and presence in rural/urban health centers were more common in GPs graduated after ۲۰۰۱ in comparisons with counterpart group Moreover GPs who worked in rural health centers indicated to have more attention on mental health dental health elderly care disease management and social health assessment methods in curriculum of SMTP Conclusion: According to our findings mental and occupational health along with elderly care should be considered in social medicine curriculum of medical students Moreover appropriate revisions on SMTP and continuous education programs on these topics for GPs are recommended

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Education , Medical students , Social medicine training program