IMPROVING OF TRAINING OF DOCTORS OF GENERAL PRACTICE – FAMILY MEDICINE ON AMBULATORY PEDIATRICS

Abstract

The aim of the work – to improve the training of general practitioners – family medicine specialists by introducing a special educational program for ambulatory pediatrics.

The main body. Ukraine is implementing the Health Care Reform. It involves the development of primary health care on the basis of family medicine. The reform envisages mainly the preventive and medical and social orientation of the primary care physicians. But, typical training programs for internship in General Practice – Family Medicine today do not provide adequate training doctors on prevention. The question of preventive pediatrics takes 32 hours (12.5 % of the total time), and social pediatrics – 2 hours (1 %). General practitioners – family medicine do not have experience of “supervising” for children, limited amount of educational materials, there is no thematic improvement on ambulatory paediatrics and this does not allow practitioners to improve their professional level.

The department has developed a curriculum of the thematic improvement cycle on ambulatory pediatrics for general practitioners – family medicine is designed for 1 month (156 academic hours): the program has 15 modules, of which 8 (45 years – 30 %) refer to the main directions of preventive and social pediatrics.

Conclusion. The attraction of highly skilled scientific and pedagogical staff in the medical-diagnostic process of the ambulatory clinic will ensure an increase in the quality of service for the children’s population and increase the training of general practitioners – family medicine doctors.