RESUMEN
The survey included 500 medical personnel in Cairo, 374 were doctors [Excluding Ob/Gyn], 80 medical students from 6th grade and 46 nurses. 27.8% of the doctors and 25% of the medical students were males. 84.2 of doctors were married while the married students and nurses formed 18.7% and 65.2% respectively. The mean number of children per family for married doctors was 1.7 child, 1.0 for married medical students and 3.3 for the married nurses. The mean number of children desired family size for married doctors, medical students and nurses was lower, as it was 1.3, 2.8 and 2.9 respectively. On the other hand, the mean number of children desired family size for the unmarried doctors, medical students and nurses was 2.1, 1.9 and 2.9 respectively. The main family planning [F.P] method used was IUD as it constitutes 59% of doctors, 46.6% of nurses. The pill users were 7.6% of doctors and 6.7% of medical students. Only 11% of doctors were practicing physiological and local methods of contraception.The main source of the latest knowledge about F.P. was the knowledge during media study, the public media mainly TV added to their knowledge.The group who gain knowledge about F.P. from mothers and friends constitue 1.3% of doctors, 25% of medical students and 65.2% of nurses. Doctors were found to have the best knowledge as regard types, mode and timing of use and awarrence with possible complications as 77.5% and 49.2% of them were having average level of knowledge as regards IUD and pills and only about 4% of them having excellent knowledge for these methods Medical students were next to doctors as 56.5% and 38.7% were having average knowledge about IUD and pills respectively, while only 26% of nurses were having average knowledge about IUD and pills only