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Journal of Educational Research and Reviews
Short Communication | Published March 2020 | Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 22-25.
 doi: https://doi.org/10.33495/jerr_v8i2.20.105

 

Correlation Study of Training, Assessed and Community Prevalent Rheumatologic Diagnosis in a single Rheumatology Training Center

 

 

 

David Vega-Morales*
Jorge A. Esquivel-Valerio
Ana C. Arana-Guajardo
Arian E. Armenta-González
Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo
Brenda Roxana Vázquez Fuentes
Dionicio Ángel Galarza Delgado
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University Hospital “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico.

 

 

 

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 Citation: Vega-Morales D, Esquivel-Valerio JA, Arana-Guajardo AC, Armenta-González AE, Garza-Elizondo MA, Fuentes BRV, Delgado DAG (2020). Correlation Study of Training, Assessed and Community Prevalent Rheumatologic Diagnosis in a single Rheumatology Training Center. J. Edu. Res. Rev. 8(2): 22-25.
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 Abstract 

 

The objective of this study is to assess the concordance between the rheumatic diagnoses seen by training-fellow and to correlate with the assessed diagnosis by the Mexican Accreditation Council for Rheumatology (MACR) and the prevalent diagnosis. An observational study in a single rheumatology-training center was made. The training rheumatologic diagnosis (TRD) was defined by the number of consultations of each diagnosis by clinical records. The assessed diagnoses (ARD) were defined by the number of questions evaluated in the board examination, and the community prevalent (CPRD) ones were defined by the frequency of the diagnosis by Community Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) evaluation. 6279 medical records were reviewed. 854 (13.6%) were first-time evaluations, while 5,400 (86.4%) were women with a mean age of 47.9 (SD 15.45) years. The Spearman correlation coefficients of the 32 different diagnoses were: TRD vs. ARD, 0.492 (p = 0.004), TRD vs. CPRD 0.597 (p = 0.01) and ARD vs. CPRD 0.624 (p = 0.01). Although, the most common musculoskeletal disease in our community did not obtain the frequency observed by students or evaluated in the written exam, but a moderate correlation was observed in this study.

 

Keywords  Medical education   rheumatology training programme   objective structured clinical exams   OSCE 

 

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