Awareness, Practices, and Demands of Traditional Medicine Providers for Continuous Medical Education in District Hospitals of Vietnam

Table 3

Practices in CME on TM among participants.

Characteristics	n	%
Previous CME experience in the last five years
TM training	168	60.0
General examination and treatment	204	72.9
Disease prevention	179	63.9
Health programs	228	81.4
Total time of previous CME in the last five years
<3 days	48	17.2
3–6 days	33	11.8
7–12 days	76	27.1
>12 days	79	28.2
Do not know	44	15.7
Receive CME in the central hospital in the last five years	132	47.1
Reasons for participating in CME
Assignment from hospital	144	51.4
Self-training	120	42.9
Barriers of CME participation
Lack of time	81	28.9
Lack of funding source	90	32.1
Lack of materials	77	27.5
Hospital did not allow to participate	1	0.4
Other	14	5.0
None	112	40.0