OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY ON MEDICAL UPDATING AND ON THE USE OF DECISION-MAKING SUPPORTS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE (ID 229)
Abstract
Background and Aims
Assimefac carried out an observational survey on the training needs and methods, preferred by doctors, for their fulfillment, as well as the need for information support in daily practice
Methods
An anonymous questionnaire of thirteen questions was administered, made available for 10 days on the Home Pages of ASSIMEFAC and the Italian Doctors Syndicate, as well as on Social Network pages of groups dedicated exclusively to doctors.In all, 144 Doctors from all over Italy responded.
Results
The largest percentage of doctors who took part in the survey is made up of general practitioners, males and older than 51 years. 68,8% said they preferred to attend conferences or ECM courses in presence. 61,8% of Doctors declare that they often need information based on scientific evidence and they retrieve this information on medical websites (66%), considering it very useful (81.3 %) to have access to databases. 72.9% of the interviewees declare that they consider it a very useful service, by Scientific Societies / Local Health Authorities / Hospitals, to provide subscriptions for consulting databases and 84.7% are in favor of innovative updating methods to obtain a better performance
Conclusions
The survey highlighted the need to be able to access IT tools for easy consultation, as a decision support in clinical practice.Doctors participating in the researchdeclared that, among other forms of updating, they prefer participation in conferences, conventions and / or ECM courses in attendance and said they were ready for innovative forms of continuing education in medicine.