Clinical Competency Needs of Physiatrists in Thailand: A Cross-Sectional study
Keywords:
physical and rehabilitation medicine, education, medical, graduate, professional practice, program evaluationAbstract
Objectives: To determine the degree to which the clinical competency needs of Thai practicing physiatrists in the current rehabilitation medicine residency curriculum align with topics validated by the Board of Training and Examination in Rehabilitation Medicine of Thailand
Study design: Cross-sectional study
Setting: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Subjects: Total Thai physiatrists in 2020-2021
Methods: A total of 731 physiatrists in Thailand were surveyed using the questionnaire which was composed of two parts. The first part covered participants’ characteristics. The second part included 96 rehabilitation medicine topics which had been validated by the Board of Training and Examination in Rehabilitation Medicine of Thailand. Participants rated each of the topics on afour-point (1-4) Likert scale for both “Frequency” and “Importance”. Frequency refers to how often the participant applied each topic in their practice and importance refers to the significance of each topic in their clinical practice.
Results: The response rate was 15.3% (112/731). The five most frequently encountered conditions rated 4 were low back pain (N=86.6%), osteoarthritis of the knee (N=83.0%), stroke (N=79.5%), spondylosis/spondylolisthesis (N=78.6%), and radiculopathy (N=70.5%). The five most essential conditions rated 4 were stroke (N=87.5%), osteoarthritis of the knee (N=79.5%), low back pain (N=78.6%), chronic pain (N=75.9%), and radiculopathy (N=75.0%).
Conclusions: The survey provides essential information which the Royal College of Physiatrists of Thailand and could use to help improve the curriculum content for entrustable professional activities.
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