Determination of the Knowledge and Skills of Physicians Working in Emergency Services Against Judicial Incidents

Abstract

In our study, we aimed to determine the approach of physicians working in emergency services to forensic cases and to provide data for training on this subject. Our study was carried out between 10.06.2016-15.08.2016 with the physicians working in the emergency services across the country. In order to measure the level of knowledge of physicians in judicial cases, qualitative evaluation including questionnaires and cases were conducted. 496 physicians were participated in the study. The correct answer rates average of 74 questions asked to doctors about basic medical intervention was 85.6 ± 11.1%. Average of correct responding to questions about life-threatening was 70.3 ± 9.3% and the average of correct responding to all questions was 78.0 ± 7.7%. Among basic medical intervention, life-threatening and total, a positive correlation was found between the level of knowledge and age (p <0.05). The total and simple medical intervention knowledge of the men was found to be better than women (p <0.05). As a result, specialist doctors’ knowledge level was lower, general practitioners had the best knowledge level (p<0.05). It was detected that specialist physicians had a low level of knowledge in terms of basic medical intervention, life threatening condition and overall sum and it was determined that the best knowledge was possessed by practitioners (p<0.05). Life-threatening and the total level of knowledge was higher in physicians who attended the seminar (p<0.05). As a result, the knowledge level of physicians is inadequate on forensic medicine and should be increased with in-service training. © 2018, Yuzuncu Yil Universitesi Tip Fakultesi. All rights reserved.