Status of Postgraduate Training and Continuing MedicalEducation of Family Physicians in Pakistan

Objectives: the study aimed to find out the status of postgraduate training and continuing medical education (cme) of family physicians of pakistan. methodology: it was a 10 months postal survey between november 2009 and september 2010. postal questionnaires were sent to randomly selected 1200 family physicians. the data was analyzed using spss v-17. results: the response rate of survey was 24%. the number of family physicians receiving any kind of post graduate training was 104 (36%) while 184 (64%) had no postgraduate training at all. medicine was the most common subject in postgraduate training (n=19, 18% of 104). the number of family physicians holding any degree was 87 (30%). mean weekly time spent on self education was 6.5 hours with a range of 1 to 10 hours. conclusions: most of family physicians are practicing without training and mostly update their knowledge from books and use of online cme is low.