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Francisco Escobar Rabadán1, Jesús López-Torres Hidalgo
1Healthcare Service of Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM), Albacete, Spain. fjescobarr@sescam.jccm.es
Background And Objectives:
The study's objective was to determine medical students' knowledge of and attitudes toward family medicine before and after completing a course in primary care.
Methods:
Before and after a course in primary care, 81 medical students were asked to respond to a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire, comprising 34 items that measured students' attitudes and knowledge about primary care that uses a 5-point Likert response scale.
Results:
Forty-four (54.3%) students completed both the pre-course and post-course questionnaires. Before the course, 38.6% looked favorably upon the specialty of family medicine. After the course, the percentage increased to 70.4%. Nevertheless, only 11.4% initially considered family medicine as a first career option, and their attitude did not change after the course.
Conclusions:
After completing the course, the students showed an improvement in their knowledge of and attitudes toward family medicine and primary care, but only a small percentage considered a career in family medicine as a first-choice option.
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