TY - JOUR
T1 - GP trainees’ values and knowledge regarding global health competencies
AU - Lanyon, Chloe
AU - Forde, Emer
AU - Scallan, Samantha
AU - Macdonald, Alex
AU - Powell, Samantha
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Globalisation is having a significant impact on health through the increasingly interconnected nature of our world, population movement and effects of political and environmental issues. In response, medical educators are urged to review postgraduate training programmes to ensure that doctors are up-to-date with training in contemporary global health issues. Positioned on the frontline of healthcare provision, GPs have an integral role to play in addressing local and global health inequities. However, GP trainees in the UK currently receive little formal education on global health. We sought to investigate GP trainees’ understanding and perceived competence in relation to global health issues and cross-cultural practice and their views regarding whether it is indeed time for GP postgraduate training to ‘go global’. We invited trainees across Health Education England: Wessex (N = 476) to complete an anonymous online questionnaire. The majority of respondents either ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ that ‘it is important for doctors training to be GPs in the UK to have education on global health’ (89%). Similarly, the majority either ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ that ‘it is important for doctors training to be GPs in the UK to develop intercultural competence’ (93%). In contrast to the high degree of importance that GP trainees placed on establishing proficiency in these domains, approximately half (45–54%) reported their current level of competence as only being ‘average’. Our findings indicate a mismatch and unmet need for further training in the postgraduate setting, with strong GP trainee support for a shift in curriculum design and delivery, towards more globally competent general practice.
AB - Globalisation is having a significant impact on health through the increasingly interconnected nature of our world, population movement and effects of political and environmental issues. In response, medical educators are urged to review postgraduate training programmes to ensure that doctors are up-to-date with training in contemporary global health issues. Positioned on the frontline of healthcare provision, GPs have an integral role to play in addressing local and global health inequities. However, GP trainees in the UK currently receive little formal education on global health. We sought to investigate GP trainees’ understanding and perceived competence in relation to global health issues and cross-cultural practice and their views regarding whether it is indeed time for GP postgraduate training to ‘go global’. We invited trainees across Health Education England: Wessex (N = 476) to complete an anonymous online questionnaire. The majority of respondents either ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ that ‘it is important for doctors training to be GPs in the UK to have education on global health’ (89%). Similarly, the majority either ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ that ‘it is important for doctors training to be GPs in the UK to develop intercultural competence’ (93%). In contrast to the high degree of importance that GP trainees placed on establishing proficiency in these domains, approximately half (45–54%) reported their current level of competence as only being ‘average’. Our findings indicate a mismatch and unmet need for further training in the postgraduate setting, with strong GP trainee support for a shift in curriculum design and delivery, towards more globally competent general practice.
KW - global health
KW - Medical education
KW - primary care
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128975914&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14739879.2022.2052363
DO - 10.1080/14739879.2022.2052363
M3 - Article
C2 - 35389827
AN - SCOPUS:85128975914
VL - 33
SP - 248
EP - 250
IS - 4
ER -