Study on residents' behavior changes and theirs physical examination intervention

Abstract

Objective To give suggestions for residents' standardization training of basic skills and residents' behavior changes by discussing the appropriate approaches that could continuously improve residents' basic skill.Methods Totally 71 recruited residents in one of the 3b level hospitals from 2008 to 2010 were divided into control group and intervention group.Thirty-five residents in intervention group attended the physical examination training,medical record writing and were regularly monitored and supervised while 36 residents in control group were received regularly skill/behavior measurement.Data were analyzed by SPSS 13.0.Skill and behavior changing degrees and trends of physical examination between two groups were evaluated before and after intervention by mixed effect model to do ANOVA for repeated measurement.Results General scores and partial scores (head,neck,chest and back of the body) of physical examination were significantly different before and after intervention(P ＜0.05).Conclusions Interventions of physical examination for residents are effective and resident's behavior and skill were improved effectively.Intervention approaches could be considered as one of the standard training of elementary operation skill for recruit residents. Key words: Resident ; General physical examination; Skills intervention ; Behavior change