Effectiveness of interventional training program in medical internship program in Gaza Governorates

Abstract

The study's goal was to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a new interventional training program from the trainees' perception. This new interventional training program is formed to strengthening some weakness points found in the assessment old medical internship program. The study consist of three stages (assessment phase occurred already and resulted in some weakness points such as basic medical skills and interpersonal administrative skills. Based on that a new interventional training program is designed and implemented, in the second stage, we designed and implemented the interventional training program accordingly, then evaluation of the new interventional training program was the third stage. Qausi experimental pre-post intervention design was used to compare between old and new intervention. The study population included all medical students (523) who joined and finished the medical internship program in the last three years (2017 - 2019). Data were collected in 10 months through an on line self-administered questionnaire with a response rate of 81.6%. The study results revealed that more than half of study population in both groups (pre & post intervention) were male 53.3% and 54.9% respectively, and 65.3% of pre interventional group compared to 81% of post intervention group were not married. Furthermore, the study's findings revealed a high level of statistical significance following the implementation of the interventional training program, compared to an unsatisfactory level prior to the implementation of the interventional training program. Also, the trainees' perception improved after the interventional program was implemented, with the total mean score of the interventional program being 1.06 out of 2 (53 percent) before the program was implemented compared to 1.66 out of 2 (83 percent) after the program was implemented, with a highly statistically significant difference. According to study findings, interns in a new integrated interventional training program appeared to be very pleased with their new IP.