出版社:Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Gujarat
摘要:IMNCI is an important strategy beingimplemented across our country with the aim ofreducing infant as well as children under-5mortality. It has also been incorporated in theundergraduate curriculum for M.B.B.S. Thiscross-sectional study was carried out among 100internee doctors of Smt. NHL MunicipalMedical College, Ahmedabad. The resultsshowed that 32% internee doctors were not ableto classify child's illness for possible infectionbased on symptoms given. Also only 50%correctly knew the National ImmunizationSchedule. The only descriptive question relatedto treatment of malaria as per the IMNCIguidelines was not attempted by 21%.