ArticleAdvances in medicine2017
Confidence in Procedural Skills before and after a Two-Year Master's Programme in Family Medicine in Gezira State, Sudan.
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- Effectiveness of the family medicine curriculum in the improvement of skills and knowledge of family medicine residents in Sudan 2024: a quantitative and qualitative survey.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Pioneering family physicians and the mechanisms for strengthening primary health care in India-A qualitative descriptive study.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Factors affecting family medicine programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review of recent literature.Ghana medical journal · 2022Review
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- A scoping review on family medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: practice, positioning and impact in African health care systems.Human resources for health · 2020Article
- Impact on core values of family medicine from a 2-year Master's programme in Gezira, Sudan: observational study.BMC family practice · 2019Observational
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Abstract
Many postgraduate family medicine training programmes have been developed to meet the worldwide dire need for practicing family physicians. This study was conducted in Gezira state of Sudan in a "before-and-after" design in the period of 2010-2012 with the aim to assess improvements in candidates' confidence in performing certain clinical skills. A self-evaluation questionnaire was used with a five-grade scale (1-5) to assess candidates' confidence in performing 46 clinical skills. A group of 108 participants responded for both the "before" and the "after" questionnaire: the response rate was 91% (before) and 90% (after). In general, a positive progress trend was detected. The mean skill value for all skills was 3.23 (before) and 3.93 (after) with a mean increase of 21.7% (
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