Satisfaction with ophthalmology residency training from the perspective of recent graduates: a cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Education

Keila Monteiro de Carvalho¹  Tatiana Millán¹ 

[1] Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

关键词: Ophthalmology;    Medical residency program;    Medical education;   

Others  :  1138909
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6920-13-75

 received in 2012-02-29, accepted in 2013-05-23,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Few studies have evaluated satisfaction with medical residency programs from the perspective of residents or recent graduates. Knowledge of current conditions of teaching might help to identify deficiencies and to provide adequate training. So, the aim of this study was to assess the satisfaction with residency training and to identify deficiencies in this training from the perspective of recent graduates in ophthalmology residency.

Methods

For this purpose, we developed a questionnaire and gaved it to recent graduates in ophthalmology residency in São Paulo, Brazil, from January to December 2010. The questions contained demographic information (age, sex and time of practice in ophthalmology), a Likert scale to evaluate the level of satisfaction with medical residency concerning clinical knowledge, surgical skills and doctor-patient relationship and questions about deficiency in clinical and surgical areas.

Results

The areas in which recent residency graduates were very or extremely satisfied were: acquisition of clinical knowledge (89.1%), acquisition of surgical skills (93.4%) and the development of doctor-patient relationship (74.9%). Specific areas of clinical knowledge in which they perceived more deficiency were orbit (48.3%) and ophthalmic pathology (47.9%), and in surgical skills were refractive surgery (65.9%) and orbit (59.2%)

Conclusions

The assessment of the satisfaction with residency training in ophthalmology from the perspective of recent graduates showed high level of satisfaction and identified specific deficiencies in ophthalmic pathology, refractive surgery and orbit.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Millán and de Carvalho; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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