From the Department of Family Medicine & Polyclinics (Bin Shihah, Alrashed, Al-Abduljabbar, Shafiq, Ahmed, Alkhenizan), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alamri), King Abdallah Hospital, Bisha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Med J. 2022 Aug;43(8):954-958. doi: 10.15537/smj.2022.43.8.20210920.
To determine the level of awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners and to identify factors that influence that level of awareness in Saudi Arabia.
This cross-sectional study was carried out in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2020-2021 via a survey including 750 healthcare practitioners, from different specialties including all regions in Saudi Arabia. Participants included consultants, senior registrars, interns, and residents.
Majority of enrolled healthcare practitioners had poor awareness of medical law (approximately 97%). Only 1.5% had adequate awareness of medical law, and only 1.5% had moderate awareness. Factors associated with increased medical law awareness were the age group between 25 and 34, being from the central region, and having a clinical practice for less than 10 years -value of <0.05.
Awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners is limited in Saudi Arabia. Professional medico-legal education should be part of required competencies for undergraduate and postgraduate levels of medical education. Health care practitioners must be educated with laws and regulations of practicing health professions in the country.
确定医疗保健从业者对医疗法律的认知水平，并确定在沙特阿拉伯影响这种认知水平的因素。
本横断面研究于 2020 年至 2021 年在沙特阿拉伯的利雅得进行，通过一项调查纳入了来自沙特阿拉伯各地不同专业的 750 名医疗保健从业者，包括顾问、高级住院医师、实习医生和住院医师。
大多数参与的医疗保健从业者对医疗法律的认识较差（约 97%）。仅有 1.5%的人对医疗法律有足够的认识，仅有 1.5%的人有中等认识。与医疗法律意识提高相关的因素包括年龄在 25 至 34 岁之间、来自中部地区以及临床实践少于 10 年（<0.05）。
沙特阿拉伯的医疗保健从业者对医疗法律的认识有限。专业医学法律教育应成为医学本科和研究生教育必备能力的一部分。医疗保健从业者必须接受该国医疗职业法律法规的教育。
