[Effectivity control of medical postgraduate training courses (author's transl)]

A pilot study of 185 participants of a seminar congress on psychosomatic gynecology was intended to examine how far effectivity controls are feasible. The seminar assessment was age-dependent e. g. with regard to presentation of material (p less than 0.01) and practical usefulness (p less than 0.05). The assessment was sex-specific e. g. with regard to presentation of material (p less than 0.01) and congress organization (p less than 0.01). The interest in the seminar differed between gynecologists in general practice and those in clinic or hospital practice. Four fifths of the participants would agree to a detailed questionnaire on seminar assessment. Then the majority would accept effectivity controls of medical postgraduate education with social scientific methods.