title: Can an information booklet on an ethnic minority increase the knowledge base of junior doctors?
abstract: Many doctors encounter people of different cultural backgrounds for the first time as patients. In Leicester a significant proportion of the area's population comes from a Gujarati and Hindu background. In an attempt to better inform junior doctors about the views and beliefs of their patients, a group of clinicians and administrators developed an information booklet about the beliefs and practices of people from this community. The impact of this booklet on a group of 54 junior doctors' knowledge was investigated over a period of one month. Such an information booklet was found to significantly increase awareness of the cultural background of patients from a minority community and this knowledge was maintained for at least one month after distribution. The study did not investigate impact on attitudes.
authors.affiliation: Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Chazal
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Mayberry
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004739:England; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D010174:Pamphlets; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013664:Teaching Materials