Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship: Assessing Competency Levels at King Abdul-Aziz Medical City and in all Centers in Saudi Arabia: Cross Sectional Study
Abstract:
Introduction: Competency-based assessments are used to distinguish between the skills and knowledge that you already have and those for which you need more education and training. The implementation of CBME requires an organized and structured set of interrelated competencies known as a competency framework. The aim is assessing the competency and satisfaction level among Gastroenterology fellows across the Saudi Kingdom and provide practical insight into how to accomplish full evaluation to pediatric gastroenterology fellowship curriculum.
Methods: This is quantitative study type to determine the competency of activities comparing to traditional methods. It was done by self-administered validated questionnaire with five domains.
Results: Significant differences between the scores of the fellows observed in this study in different domains. High satisfaction rate was noted overall fellows among accredited centers across Saudi Arabia, which was 28/32(90%). The fellows were more competent in dealing with chronic liver diseases regardless the cause which getting more with advance years.
Conclusion: Pediatric Gastroenterology training programs are perceived as doing excellent job-training fellows in many areas. Gaps in training should be addressed in fellowship training and post-training education. High rate of satisfaction and agreement between fellow regarding their centers. Further studies need to compare our fellows with international fellows at North American centers, which will give a great insight and more, improve in our program.
