Saltstone S P, Saltstone R, Rowe B H
Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services, Subury.
Can Fam Physician. 1997 Apr;43:669-73.
To ascertain how much family medicine residents know about medical-legal issues and what their attitudes toward medical-legal training are.
Survey using multiple-choice questions to assess knowledge of typical legal scenarios and attitudes to training. Responses to questions were assessed using a Likert scale.
University of Ottawa's Family Medicine Program, including the Northeastern Ontario Family Medicine Program and the Melrose and Elizabeth Bruyere Family Medicine Centres.
Forty-five family medicine residents in the University of Ottawa's Family Medicine Program.
Demographic information and answers to questions assessing respondents' knowledge of and attitudes toward medical-legal issues.
Mean score for correct responses was 8.6 out of 16 possible correct responses. Resident's knowledge about certain issues was excellent, such as knowing that comments can be constructed as sexual abuse and that they should report patients whose medical conditions make it dangerous for them to operate motor vehicles. On other issues, such as how to treat incompetent individuals and how to treat minors when parents refuse consent for treatment, residents' knowledge seemed poor. Although residents thought knowledge of medical-legal issues was important for providing good-quality care to patients and avoiding litigation, they felt inadequately trained in and uncomfortable about dealing with these issues.
Residents are somewhat confused about medical-legal issues. They seem very interested in learning medical-legal principles. These findings should encourage educators to provide opportunity for residents to gain knowledge in these areas.
确定家庭医学住院医师对医疗法律问题的了解程度以及他们对医疗法律培训的态度。
采用多项选择题进行调查，以评估对典型法律场景的了解以及对培训的态度。使用李克特量表对问题的回答进行评估。
渥太华大学家庭医学项目，包括安大略省东北部家庭医学项目以及梅尔罗斯和伊丽莎白·布鲁耶尔家庭医学中心。
渥太华大学家庭医学项目中的45名家庭医学住院医师。
人口统计学信息以及评估受访者对医疗法律问题的了解和态度的问题答案。
在16个可能的正确答案中，正确回答的平均分数为8.6分。住院医师对某些问题的了解非常出色，例如知道某些言论可能被认定为性虐待，以及他们应该报告那些因健康状况而驾驶机动车存在危险的患者。但在其他问题上，例如如何治疗无行为能力的个体以及当父母拒绝同意治疗时如何治疗未成年人，住院医师的了解似乎较差。尽管住院医师认为医疗法律问题的知识对于为患者提供高质量护理和避免诉讼很重要，但他们觉得在处理这些问题方面培训不足且感到不自在。
住院医师对医疗法律问题有些困惑。他们似乎对学习医疗法律原则非常感兴趣。这些发现应促使教育工作者为住院医师提供在这些领域获取知识的机会。
