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Abstract
The importance assigned to cerebral palsy is attributed to its severity, the burden it places on affected children, their families and societies and its high frequency as a cause of severe activity limitation in childhood.
The aim of the current study was to design a competency-based training program to improve the competency of junior pediatric residents in Alexandria University Children Hospital regarding diagnosis, evaluation and management of children having cerebral palsy.
The study was conducted on 8 pediatrics residents of those who recently joined the department of pediatrics (1 year before the study time) as experimental group and 8 pediatric residents who have been trained in Pediatric Neurology Unit within a year before the time of the study as a control group.
A 40-question survey was designed to assess the existing level of competency of this group of residents before designing the program. The results revealed that the existing level of the whole group in both knowledge and skill questions is poor.
The result for knowledge questions was (range 35.3 - 44.1, mean 40.6 ± SD 3.1) and for skill questions was (range 20.2 - 46.4, mean 30.8 ± SD 10.1).
Then according to the intended outcome of the program and according to the answers of the residents in the pre-training test, a 4-modules training programs was designed as following (module 1: basics of cerebral palsy, module 2: cerebral palsy diagnosis, module 3: patient care and module 4: family centered care).