We know the variability in carrying out preventive activities between primary care teams; increasing compliance when workload is lower, and the lack of time is postulated as the main barrier to preventive care. Likewise, teaching medical residents is one more activity within those of the medical residents tutor and increases the workload in the clinic.
The main objective of this study was to determine if there are differences in the level of carrying out prevention activities among physicians who are tutors of residents in family medicine and physicians who are not tutors.
We conducted a cross sectional study involving 143 family medicine physicians (belonging to the 13 Primary Health Centres in Vitoria-Gasteiz) who were in active work in January 2010. We collected data on the level of prevention activities accomplishment 鈥淥sabide鈥?(single digital history).
We only found statistically significant differences in the activities 鈥渟creening blood pressure鈥?(61.52 卤 14.35 vs 53,87 卤 15.89; P = .037) and 鈥渁lcohol consumption鈥?(60.67 卤 16.92 vs 52.77 卤 17.91; P = .047) between teaching and non-teaching clinics.
From the results obtained in this study it can be suggested that time spent by tutors in teaching resident physicians does not have a negative effect on the prevention process; therefore necessary to involve all physicians need to be involved in this process.