BACKGROUND: In developing countries, continuing medical education (CME) is lacking and physicians' knowledge of cancer control may also be lacking. METHOD: We evaluated knowledge of 144 primary care physicians in Egypt and 50 in Tunisia regarding breast cancer (BC) and inflammatory BC (IBC) in particular. We invited the physicians to pretesting, presentation of an educational module, and post-testing. RESULTS: We found significant improvement in knowledge about risk factors for IBC and BC, importance of early detection and clinical examination, and referral of IBC cases. The variables that were independently associated with improved BC knowledge, were rural practice location, being a female physician, and greater numbers of BC patients seen in the last year. CONCLUSION. We developed and evaluated a CME module to improve BC diagnostic knowledge of primary care physicians in developing countries. The evaluation showed that physicians most lacking in this knowledge had the greatest gains. With the anticipated adoption of this module in Egypt and Tunisia, we expect to see more appropriate referrals to cancer centers. These results could guide future oncology CME for physicians in developing countries.
BACKGROUND: In developing countries, continuing medical education (CME) is lacking and physicians' knowledge of cancer control may also be lacking. METHOD: We evaluated knowledge of 144 primary care physicians in Egypt and 50 in Tunisia regarding breast cancer (BC) and inflammatory BC (IBC) in particular. We invited the physicians to pretesting, presentation of an educational module, and post-testing. RESULTS: We found significant improvement in knowledge about risk factors for IBC and BC, importance of early detection and clinical examination, and referral of IBC cases. The variables that were independently associated with improved BC knowledge, were rural practice location, being a female physician, and greater numbers of BC patients seen in the last year. CONCLUSION. We developed and evaluated a CME module to improve BC diagnostic knowledge of primary care physicians in developing countries. The evaluation showed that physicians most lacking in this knowledge had the greatest gains. With the anticipated adoption of this module in Egypt and Tunisia, we expect to see more appropriate referrals to cancer centers. These results could guide future oncology CME for physicians in developing countries.
Authors: Nazneen Uddin; Elham Fateem; Ahmed Hablas; Ibrahim A Seifeldin; Elissa Brown; Sofia D Merajver; Amr S Soliman Journal: J Cancer Educ Date: 2012-03 Impact factor: 2.037
Authors: Catherine Schairer; Ahmed Hablas; Ibrahim AbdelBar Seif Eldein; Rabab Gaafar; Henda Rais; Amel Mezlini; Farhat Ben Ayed; Wided Ben Ayoub; Abdellatif Benider; Ali Tahri; Mouna Khouchani; Dalia Aboulazm; Mehdi Karkouri; Saad Eissa; Ruth M Pfeiffer; Shahinaz M Gadalla; Sandra M Swain; Sofia D Merajver; Linda Morris Brown; Amr S Soliman Journal: Breast Cancer Res Treat Date: 2019-04-22 Impact factor: 4.872
Authors: Lynne Le; Catherine Schairer; Ahmed Hablas; Jane Meza; Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway; Mohamed Ramadan; Sofia D Merajver; Ibrahim A Seifeldin; Amr S Soliman Journal: BMC Res Notes Date: 2017-03-16