Confidence in Procedural Skills before and after a Two-Year Master’s Programme in Family Medicine in Gezira State, Sudan
Table 3
GFMP candidates’ self-assessment of competences in certain patient-educational skills before and after the master’s programme () (scale: “yes” = 2, “sometimes” = 1, and “no” = 0).
Patient-educational skill
Before ()
After ()
Change of mean value
value
Yes
Sometimes
No
Missing
Mean value
Yes
Sometimes
No
Missing
Mean value
Teaching diabetic patients how to use insulin
45
41
20
2
1.24
69
35
3
1
1.62
0.38
<0.001
Teaching women breast self-examination
31
35
39
3
0.92
59
40
9
0
1.46
0.54
<0.001
Discussing smoking cessation with patients
56
36
12
4
1.42
81
24
3
0
1.72
0.30
<0.001
Teaching mothers how to feed malnourished children
