Physician burnout syndrome

The medical profession is the second largest official profession in Sudan. The fast spread of information technology in the eve of the second millennium has created an atmosphere of great expectations, that medical doctors should be updated, skillful, enthusiastic, kind, treat patients, train registrars teach medical students and develop high moral and ethical attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to high light the Physician Burnout Syndrome and its relation to unintentional medical errors and society lack of satisfaction. Brief literature review and observations from the current atmosphere of medical practice in Sudan. Early detection is the responsibility of the administration and medical colleagues to save victims of the Physician Burnout Syndrome and prevent medical errors, unintentional laxity, disregard and/or malpractice

Evaluation death certificates in the pediatric hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan during 2004

As the death certificate was not recently revised or updated and doctors had no training on death certification, then accuracy and proper completion of the death certificate should be checked. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the death certificate. This study was conducted in the 4 pediatric hospitals in Khartoum state during the year 2004. Quantitative data were collected using pre-tested, pre-coded questionnaire for doctors and checklist for certificates and medical records; qualitative data were also collected from respondents of focus group discussions and by informants in in-depth interviews. The filling out of the death certificate was inappropriate and incomplete. Part II of the cause of death item was not filled out in [97%] of the certificates. The completion of most items of the death certificate was partial [98.2%]. In comparison between causes of death on the death certificate and the diagnoses in the deceased medical record only [36.7%] were corresponding. 63.3% of the filled out lines of the cause of death item were incorrect causes of death and [47%] of them were mode of dying. 78% of the doctors agreed that the death certificate should be filled out by them and not by house officers. The death certificate format was judged to be confusing and not clear. There was serious lack of training of doctors on death certification; training should be conducted for doctors at all levels. The death certificate format has to be modified, updated and simplified