Students and interns had the highest overall confidence using computers, followed by faculty and then senior residents. Residents perceived lack of money and time as barriers to improving their skills. Current senior residents may require remedial training to graduate with the computer skills specified in curricular guidelines. While upcoming medical students and interns will demand more advanced training, faculty may not have the skills to provide it. Educated and resilient, this population has many ethnic origins, but all have shared a common experience under the Soviet system and the deterioration of health care since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Information is organized into concepts of causality, therapists, and forms of therapy.
FSU medicine incorporates many Western treatments but also uses natural and spa remedies. Mainstream FSU physicians make diagnoses and use therapies that are unknown in the West. In addition, the active traditions of folk medicine and magical curing persist. US health care practitioners need to go to extra lengths to understand the perspectives and experiences of these patients and must explain basic concepts of health care in this country that will be new.