Background: Diabetes is no longer the domain of physicians alone. Every specialty needs to know about diabetes management, which, when poorly controlled, affects patient outcomes. Knowledge, attitude, and practice surveys in this group would help design and change the current academic scenario. This study aims to conduct this amongst postgraduate students in surgical branches at a medical college in rural Gujarat. Objective: The aims of this study were (1) to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding Diabetes management among surgical postgraduate students; (2) to formulate or modify teaching practices based on the knowledge gaps; and (3) to stress the need for more weightage to diabetes in the medical curriculum. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at a teaching hospital in rural Gujarat and 73 surgical postgraduate students participated. Results: Attitude towards learning was good, with 98.6% keen to learn. 97.3% felt the need for a teaching program. With regards to hurdles faced, 57.5% attributed it to lack of knowledge, 93.2% felt diabetes was not their domain, and 84.9 % regarded confusion regarding insulins. Only 48% were aware of the magnitude of the problem and knowledge regarding the management of diabetes in inpatients was less than expected. Conclusion: Results showed a good attitude, willingness to learn, and awareness about the impact of uncontrolled diabetes. The need for reinforcement of knowledge about diabetes was felt and willingness to manage diabetes if the hurdles were addressed was seen. There is a need to implement changes and give more weightage to diabetes and more hands-on experience to graduates and postgraduate curriculum (surgical branches) in medical colleges.
Background: Various arterial and venous pathologies like peripheral arterial disease (PAD), Varicose Veins (VV) and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) are most commonly occurring condition with complain of pain, claudication, swelling, gangrene and dilated veins. Due to late presentation, it is associated with increasing incidence of surgical management which can also lead to amputation of limb in later stages. Aiming at increasing in prevention and conservative management will only be possible on early diagnosis and primordial prevention which requires to find relationship between lifestyle and chronic condition with various vascular disease. Methods: A total of 67 cases were studied over a period of 1.5 years. Their clinical diagnosis along with various radiological diagnosis was compared and its sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, FPR, NPR and accuracy was calculated accordingly. Results: In this study, we found out that vascular disease is associated with sedentary lifestyle, smoking or chewing tobacco or dyslipidaemia. The common presenting symptoms were pain, claudication, swelling, gangrene and dilated veins. In the radiological investigation on comparison between catheter angiography/venography with other modalities showing specificity and sensitivity. Conclusions: In this study, we concluded that colour doppler, CT angiography and catheter angiography has highest accuracy in diagnosing arterial pathology, and Colour Doppler and CT venography has highest accuracy in diagnosing venous pathology.
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