Lai Ky Q, Nguyen Tung T, Mock Jeremiah, McPhee Stephen J, Doan Hiep Trong, Pham Tanh H
Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 95128, USA.
Ethn Dis. 2004 Summer;14(3 Suppl 1):S122-7.
Vietnamese-American women who regularly see Vietnamese-American physicians are less likely to obtain Pap tests, perhaps because of the physicians' limited training in preventive medicine and the women's discomfort receiving Pap tests from male physicians. To address this problem, during 2001-2003, the University of California, San Francisco's (USCF) Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project collaborated with the Vietnamese Physician Association of Northern California to organize 3 continuing medical education (CME) seminars on cervical cancer for association members. Experts gave lectures and answered questions about screening, diagnosis, and treatment to train physicians to identify risk factors, recommend Pap tests, and evaluate and conduct follow up of abnormal tests. To evaluate the seminars, we administered pre- and post-CME pencil-and-paper questionnaires. Data analysis employing the McNemar chi-squared test demonstrated significant changes in knowledge and understandingfrom pre- to post-CME in multiple areas. Results suggest that CME seminars can significantly increase Vietnamese physicians' knowledge about cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment.
经常看美籍越南裔医生的美籍越南女性进行巴氏试验的可能性较小,这可能是因为医生在预防医学方面的培训有限,以及女性在接受男医生的巴氏试验时会感到不适。为了解决这个问题,在2001年至2003年期间,加利福尼亚大学旧金山分校(UCSF)的越南社区健康促进项目与北加利福尼亚越南医生协会合作,为协会成员组织了3次关于宫颈癌的继续医学教育(CME)研讨会。专家们进行了讲座,并回答了有关筛查、诊断和治疗的问题,以培训医生识别风险因素、推荐巴氏试验,以及评估和跟进异常检查结果。为了评估这些研讨会,我们在继续医学教育前后发放了纸笔问卷。采用麦克尼马尔卡方检验的数据分析表明,在多个领域,继续医学教育前后的知识和理解有显著变化。结果表明,继续医学教育研讨会可以显著增加越南医生关于宫颈癌诊断和治疗的知识。