Scandinavian journal of primary health care
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Jul 1990
A three-year training programme for primary health care physicians in Poland.
A three-year training programme was developed and implemented by the Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education in Poland with the aim of improving the knowledge and skills of primary health care physicians working in the State Health Services' community centres. The programme creates several learning and self-assessment opportunities with the general principle of not distracting a doctor from his daily duties in a community health centre for more than one day a month. ⋯ It increased health authorities' activity in creating new learning opportunities and doctors' motivation to learn. Self-assessment made by the first group of trainees who completed the three-year programme (results obtained by means of a questionnaire) revealed substantial increase in professional competence resulting from the participation in the programme.
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Jul 1990
Doctors in a white coat--what do patients think and what do doctors do?
Patients and general practitioners in northern Norway were asked their opinion on the doctors' use of a white coat in the consultation. 51.9% of the patients wanted their doctor not to wear a white coat, whereas 11.7% of the doctors never wore one. 5.7% of the doctors' staff members never wore a white coat. The patients' preferences were to some extent related to their own doctors' use of a white coat, and there was a significant increase in the demand for a white coat with increasing age of the patients.