ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2010
Do procedural skills workshops during family practice residency work?
Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Challenges in Providing Gynecological Procedures in Primary Care: A Survey of Canadian Academic Family Physicians.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Procedural skills workshops for primary care physicians in Israel: a comprehensive analysis.BMC medical education · 2024Observational
- Novel Performance Rating Instruments for Gynecological Procedures in Primary Care: A Pilot Study.Family medicine · 2024Article
- Utilizing a Referral-Based Procedure Clinic Rotation in Family Medicine Residency.PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) · 2022Article
- A Simulation-based Quality Improvement Approach to Improve Pediatric Resident Competency with Required Procedures.Cureus · 2017Article
- Barriers and methods to improve office-based procedural training in a family medicine residency.International journal of medical education · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine if participation in a procedural skills workshop during family practice residency affects future use of these skills in postgraduate clinical practice.
designSurvey involving self-assessment of procedural skills experience and competence.
settingBritish Columbia.
participantsFormer University of British Columbia family practice residents who trained in Vancouver, BC, including residents who participated in a procedural skills workshop in 2001 or 2003 and residents graduating in 2000 and 2002 who did not participate in the procedural skills workshop.
main outcome measuresSelf-assessed experience and competence in the 6 office-based procedural skills that were taught during the procedural skills workshops in 2001 and 2003.
resultsParticipation in a procedural skills workshop had no positive effect on future use of these skills in clinical practice. Participation in the workshop was associated with less reported experience (P = .091) in injection of lateral epicondylitis. As with previous Canadian studies, more women than men reported experience and competence in gynecologic procedures. More women than men reported experience (P = .001) and competence (P = .004) in intrauterine device insertion and experience (P = .091) in endometrial aspiration biopsy. More men than women reported competence (P = .052) in injection of trochanteric bursae. A third year of emergency training was correlated with an increase in reported experience (P = .021) in shoulder injection.
conclusionParticipation in a procedural skills workshop during family practice residency did not produce a significant increase in the performance of these skills on the part of participants once they were in clinical practice. The benefit of a skills workshop might be lost when there is no opportunity to practise and perfect these skills. Sex bias in the case of some procedures might represent a needs-based acquisition of skills on the part of practising physicians. Short procedural skills workshops might be better suited to graduated physicians with more clinical experience.
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