ABSTRACT

Background: Teaching medical students to achieve the required competencies stated in the learning objectives is a challenging task for medical colleges. Evaluation of the acquisition of these competencies by the newly graduated physicians is a crucial step to improve medical education. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge, skills, attitude and evidence based medicine practice of junior physicians from the perspectives of their peers. Subjects and Methods: A self-administered questionnaire survey of a convenient sample of 284junior physicians was conducted. They survey covers the five teaching hospitals and the 30 general hospitals of Baghdad. The questionnaire addressed the physicians’ view on the four domains of medical education: knowledge (10 questions), practice (10 questions), attitude (10 questions) and evidence based medicine practice (5 questions) of their colleagues during their early years of practice medicine. Results: The physicians viewed that the overall knowledge domain score of their peers is 72.82% (good).But, they have fair to poor knowledge in the topics of crisis management (85.56%), Management of Health system (64.43%), and preventive care (62.32%).In the skills domain, the overall score is 72.60% (good). Fair to poor scores mostly found in the skills of “Minor surgery and IV

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2019/8.1.4610