Table 3 The importance of family medicine’s contributions to other areas of preparation
From: Medical student attitudes towards family medicine in Spain: a statewide analysis
Contribution | Score (*) | Importance (**) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | % | 95% CI | ||
Communication/Doctor-patient relationship | 5.3 | 1.0 | 94.6 | 94.0 | 95.2 |
Clinical attention for the most common problems | 5.1 | 1.0 | 93.7 | 93.0 | 94.4 |
Disease prevention/Health promotion | 5.0 | 1.0 | 92.1 | 91.4 | 92.8 |
Health care across the lifespan | 4.9 | 1.0 | 91.0 | 90.2 | 91.8 |
Family-focused health care | 4.7 | 1.0 | 88.2 | 87.3 | 89.1 |
Biopsychosocial focus of health care | 4.6 | 1.1 | 84.3 | 83.3 | 85.3 |
Community-focused health care | 4.6 | 1.1 | 86.7 | 85.8 | 87.6 |
Collaboration with other sectors (education, social services or other) | 4.5 | 1.2 | 80.1 | 79.0 | 81.2 |
Bioethics | 4.2 | 1.3 | 70.4 | 69.1 | 71.7 |
Clinical epidemiology | 4.1 | 1.2 | 68.5 | 67.2 | 69.8 |
Team work | 4.1 | 1.3 | 66.5 | 65.2 | 67.8 |
Urgent care | 4.0 | 1.5 | 62.9 | 61.6 | 64.2 |
Research | 3.0 | 1.4 | 34.1 | 32.8 | 35.4 |