title: [An instrument for assessing clinical aptitude in cervicovaginitis in the family medicine practice].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  the cervicovaginitis is one of the first twelve causes on demand at primary care medicine thus the family physician must be able to identify and treat it. The objective was to validate a constructed instrument for measuring the clinical aptitude on cervicovaginitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  cross-sectional, descriptive, prolective study was carried out. An instrument with five clinical cases was done. It has seven indicators, whose answers were true, false and I do not know. The validity content was done by three family physicians and a Gynecologist, with experience in education. The trustworthiness was determined by means of the test of Kuder-Richardson formula 20 with the results obtained in a pilot test in 50 family medicine residents.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the instrument was constituted by five clinical cases with 140 Items distributed in seven indicators with 20 items for each indicator and a total of 70 true answers and 70 false answers; seven categories for the degree of clinical aptitude settled down. The trustworthiness of the instrument was 0.81.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the instrument is valid and reliable to identify the clinical aptitude of the family physician on cervicovaginitis.
authors.affiliation: Curso de Especialización en Medicina Familiar, Unidad de Medicina Familiar 94, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. drarrieta01@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Raúl Tomás
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Arrieta-Pérez
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lona-Calixto
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014627:Vaginitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy