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Alternative Title:
BMC Med Educ
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-10-18
Personal Author:
Wolff, Margaret S ; Rhodes, Erinn T ; Ludwig, David S
Wolff, Margaret S ; Rhodes, Erinn T ; Ludwig, David S Less -
Description:
Background

Information about the availability and effectiveness of childhood obesity training during residency is limited.

Methods

We surveyed residency program directors from pediatric, internal medicine-pediatrics (IM-Peds), and family medicine residency programs between September 2007 and January 2008 about childhood obesity training offered in their programs.

Results

The response rate was 42.2% (299/709) and ranged by specialty from 40.1% to 45.4%. Overall, 52.5% of respondents felt that childhood obesity training in residency was extremely important, and the majority of programs offered training in aspects of childhood obesity management including prevention (N = 240, 80.3%), diagnosis (N = 282, 94.3%), diagnosis of complications (N = 249, 83.3%), and treatment (N = 242, 80.9%). However, only 18.1% (N = 54) of programs had a formal childhood obesity curriculum with variability across specialties. Specifically, 35.5% of IM-Peds programs had a formal curriculum compared to only 22.6% of pediatric and 13.9% of family medicine programs (p < 0.01). Didactic instruction was the most commonly used training method but was rated as only somewhat effective by 67.9% of respondents using this method. The most frequently cited significant barrier to implementing childhood obesity training was competing curricular demands (58.5%).

Conclusions

While most residents receive training in aspects of childhood obesity management, deficits may exist in training quality with a minority of programs offering a formal childhood obesity curriculum. Given the high prevalence of childhood obesity, a greater emphasis should be placed on development and use of effective training strategies suitable for all specialties training physicians to care for children.


Subject:
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Child
Child, Preschool
Education, Medical
Humans
Internship And Residency
Medicine
Obesity
Questionnaires

Source:
BMC Med Educ. 2010; 10:18.
Pubmed ID:
20163732
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC2839969
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
K01DP000089/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; K24DK082730/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States
K01DP000089/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; K24DK082730/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
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urn:sha256:a1a889895bb878bd008b3855f512241ca5e21a7fb5fa287a02b832fbc98fa238
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