Veras Mirella, Pottie Kevin, Ramsay Tim, Welch Vivian, Tugwell Peter
Center for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2013 Sep 30;4(2):e10-7. eCollection 2013.
There is an increased interest in global health among medical students, family medicine residents, and medical educators. This paper is based on research to assess confidence in knowledge and skills in global health in family medicine residents in five universities across Ontario.
A web-based survey was sent to 166 first-year family medicine residents from five universities within Ontario. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze residents' confidence in their knowledge and skills in global health. The strength of association between each of the self-perceived knowledge and skills variables was assessed by the Spearman correlation coefficient.
The response rate ranged from 29% to 66% across the five universities. Self-perceived knowledge scores revealed that 34.3% of the respondents were very confident, 51.9% were somewhat confident, and 13.8% were not at all confident about their global health knowledge. Participants' confidence scores were lower in relation to knowledge of access to health care for low income nations (44.3%), and were better on their global health skills related to working in a team (70.9%) and listening actively to patients' concerns (64.6%).
The global health competency scale has identified key areas of strengths and weaknesses of family medicine programs in global health education. This can be used to evaluate and analyze progress over time.
医学生、家庭医学住院医师和医学教育工作者对全球健康的兴趣日益浓厚。本文基于一项研究，旨在评估安大略省五所大学家庭医学住院医师在全球健康方面的知识和技能信心。
向安大略省五所大学的166名一年级家庭医学住院医师发送了一项基于网络的调查。使用描述性统计分析住院医师对其全球健康知识和技能的信心。通过Spearman相关系数评估每个自我感知的知识和技能变量之间的关联强度。
五所大学的回复率在29%至66%之间。自我感知的知识得分显示，34.3%的受访者非常有信心，51.9%的受访者有些信心，13.8%的受访者对自己的全球健康知识完全没有信心。参与者在低收入国家获得医疗保健知识方面的信心得分较低（44.3%），而在与团队合作（70.9%）和积极倾听患者担忧（64.6%）相关的全球健康技能方面表现较好。
全球健康能力量表确定了家庭医学项目在全球健康教育方面的优势和劣势关键领域。这可用于评估和分析随时间的进展情况。
