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Technical Skills Required in General Pediatric Practice

1991; American Academy of Pediatrics; Volume: 88; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1542/peds.88.4.670

1098-4275

Thomas K. Oliver, Diane W. Butzin, Robert O. Guerin, Robert C. Brownlee,

Child and Adolescent Health

Several years ago the American Board of Pediatrics developed a list of 101 technical procedures, which was sent to directors of accredited pediatric programs (N = 231). There was a 70% response and 72 of 101 procedures were considered necessary for residents to develop competency by at least 80% of the program directors. The list of 72 procedures was then sent to 500 randomly selected general pediatricians from a pool size of 10 304. The response rate was 35%. Forty-nine of the 72 procedures were considered necessary by 80% of those responding and one third of the skills (24 of 72) could be classified as absolutely necessary because more than 95% of practitioners considered them to be. Only 7 procedural skills were considered unnecessary by more than 50% of practitioners. It is suggested that program directors consider the 24 skills as ones that should be taught and competence in performing them be verified and recorded.