[Continuing education in a primary care team: analysis of the 1996-1998 teaching sessions].
OBJECTIVE
To describe the teaching sessions of a primary care team in the three-year period 1996-1998. To identify the professionals who ran them and study the areas of knowledge tackled.


METHODS
A retrospective, cross-over, descriptive study.


METHODS
Teaching health centre belonging to a rural health district.


METHODS
All the teaching sessions that took place during the three-year period (n = 249).


METHODS
The following variables were extracted from the monthly register sheet of the ongoing training programme of our management: date of activity, duration, number attending, type of session, teaching professional and contents of activity (classified by pathology according to organs and systems for bibliographic, clinical and expert sessions; portfolio of 1996 Primary Care-INSALUD services for session on programme; computer studies).


RESULTS
Mean sessions per month: 6.9 (SD: 4.8). Mean attendance: 9.3 persons (SD: 3.01). Mean length: 36.5 minutes (SD: 11.0). Type of session: bibliographic 65.2%, on programme 18%, session with expert 7.2%, computer studies 5.6%, clinical 4%. Responsible for teaching: intern 39.4%; family doctor tutor 34.9%; family doctor not a tutor 7.2%; nurse 6.4%; hospital doctor 4%; locum family doctor 3.6%; pharmacist 2.8%; paediatrician 1.2%; physiotherapist 0.4%. Most common contents: non-specific general pathology (16.1%), skin diseases (8.8%), diseases of the endocrine system (7.6%).


CONCLUSIONS
Low frequency of clinical sessions. The teachers in charge were mainly family doctor tutors and interns, with the rest of the staff participating little.
Marcos Serrano
J F
JF
EAP Torre Pacheco y Los Barreros, Murcia.
Llangostera Batiste
J M
JM
Martínez Belchí
A M
AM
Martínez Garre
J
J
Sánchez González
E
E
López Ruiz
P
P
D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013030:Spain