Confidence in Procedural Skills before and after a Two-Year Master’s Programme in Family Medicine in Gezira State, Sudan

Table 4

Gender variation in self-assessed competences in discipline-based groups of skills among master’s programme’s candidates at the GFMP, Gezira state, Sudan (, 46 males and 62 females).

Group of skills	Before			After
	Male	Female	value	Male	Female	value
Internal medicine	3.79	3.41	0.006	4.33	4.14	0.075
Laboratory skills	2.89	2.43	0.043	3.85	3.60	0.193
Minor surgery	4.24	3.62	<0.001	4.44	4.17	0.031
Major surgery	3.01	2.27	<0.001	3.41	2.74	0.001
Ophthalmology	2.47	2.27	0.243	3.82	3.56	0.110
Obstetrics and gynaecology	3.66	3.07	<0.001	4.07	3.67	0.002
Psychiatry	2.86	1.95	<0.001	3.89	3.44	0.014
All skills	3.52	3.02	<0.001	4.09	3.80	0.006