title: [The Global Initiative for Asthma and familial medicine-resident physicians. Impact of an educational strategy].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) provides effective medical care to asthmatic patients. Knowledge and appropriate handling of GINAS' management guidelines for medicine residents significantly reduce asthma morbidity and mortality.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the level of knowledge about asthma on Global initiative for Asthma program before and after an educational strategy in residents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-four residents of first, second, and third grade of UMF No. 21 and No. 28 took part in this project A magisterial lecture and a workshop about clinical cases on asthma were carried out. The lecture lasted three hours and asthma surveys, before and after the educational strategy; were applied. Descriptive statistics as well as t test in SPSS were used for statistical analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Average grade of the 44 residents before the workshop was of 4.24 +/- 1.6, and after the workshop of 6.00 +/- 1.71. Therewere no significant differences among groups peryear of medical residency onthe initial assessment; however, residents of first year showed an increment on asthma knowledge (p < 0.05) in the subsequent test. There were no differences among groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Asthma educational workshops increase residents' awareness of asthma, mainly first-year medical students.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de alergía e inmunología clínica, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, México, DF. norasegura@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Nora Hilda
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Segura Méndez
authors.forename: María de la Luz
authors.initials: Mde L
authors.lastname: Barragán Estrada
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guido Bayardo
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres Salazar
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Angélica Herrera
authors.forename: José Eduardo
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hernández Martínez
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parra Román
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cortés Hernández
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male