The AGnES project indicated that, with sufficient qualification, practice assistants have the potential to be integrated in genuine medical tasks such as home visits.
On the cover letter/post card at each mailing, non-responding GPs were invited to provide via post a reason for non-response (multiple response options provided and included 'other') and minimum data about themselves (gender, year of qualification, practice size and setting) in order to permit assessment of non-response bias [ 10].
Three more years of study led to the attainment in 1912 of the MRCS and LRCP (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, known as the 'conjoint diploma'), marking his formal qualification to practice medicine.
The majority of the participants were ≤35 years in age, male, Pentecostal Christians, possessed a postgraduate qualification, had practiced for ≤5 years and were specialists or specializing.
Compared with most other specialties, a particularly high percentage of doctors who specify that they want a career in ophthalmology, in the early years after qualification, eventually practice in the specialty.
The majority of the participants were 35 years old or less, male, Pentecostal Christians possessed an additional postgraduate qualification, had practiced for 5 years or less and were specialists or specializing (Table 1).
Knowledge of commonly used stroke scales was severely inadequate regardless of gender, academic qualifications, practice duration, or practice location.
The questionnaire covered professional qualifications, practice characteristics and self-declared activity in primary care and in CAM.
Chi-square tests were performed to determine the significance of differences in the awareness of risk factors and stroke scales in male and female physicians and in physicians with different academic qualifications, practice durations, and practice locations.
There were slight differences in the responses to some of the questions on risk factors and stroke scales were associated with the physicians' gender, academic qualifications, practice duration and location.
