Impact on core values of family medicine from a 2-year Master’s programme in Gezira, Sudan: observational study

BMC Primary Care

Table 4 Family medicine core values in relation to candidates’ practice before and after GFMP

Core value topic	All (N = 91)			Males (N = 40)			Females (N = 51)
Core value topic	Before	After	P value	Before	After	P value	Before	After	P value
Patients presenting as a first contact regarding the main contact reason	78.5	62.7	< 0.001	77.57	60.6	< 0.001	79.3	64.4	< 0.001
Patients whom the doctor is the personal doctor for the patient	34.7	74.6	< 0.001	30.4	75.9	< 0.001	38.0	73.5	< 0.001
Patients with planned control in the future for follow up	47.6	61.0	< 0.001	48.7	60.3	0.054	46.8	61.4	0.002
Patients who are referred	13.7	17.3	0.040	10.4	17.3	0.009	16.2	17.2	0.678
Patients whom the doctor knows their medical history	56.2	87.0	< 0.001	44.3	85.3	< 0.001	65.6	88.3	< 0.001
Patients whom the doctor knows their family situation.	49.4	84.0	< 0.001	41.0	84.7	< 0.001	56.7	83.5	< 0.001
Patients whom the doctor knows important parts of their family medical history	47.3	84.0	< 0.001	34.4	82.3	< 0.001	57.1	85.2	< 0.001

Data based on questionnaires filled by the candidates during individual patients’ consultations and presented as mean of the candidates’ percentages of their own patients. P-values by paired t test

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