What do you mean by task analysis, if it is an evaluation of quality of assistance, you can find the PCAT tool (Primary Health Care Tool), that have a section applied to practitioners. This tool evaluate how far or not they are from the essential attributes of primary health care.

Thank you Cecilia. Task analysis is systematic assessment of knowledge and skills for health practitioners. I have attached the 2012 midwifery practice report of the US for your reference.  Thank you for the PCAT tool. 

http://www.amcbmidwife.org/docs/task-analysis/2012-task-analysis-report.pdf?sfvrsn=2

Dear,  Abiy Hiruye Sinke

Yes,  I would agree with Cecilia Severi  to use PCAT  tool.

Thank you.

Dear Ably.

In my opinion, when we talk about skills in practitioners or medical doctors, means a very big group of skills and in the same time different. In other way if your main category is personal health, you’re need to consider a different universe. Is very common to think that health professionals have similar skills or functions but not. Even they must work under an interdisciplinary model, it not happens. This condition changes the panorama. Like Hugo Spinelly said, theory is in different level than the reality. Also, to know or to evaluate skills of this group is necessary to define the level of they work.

Thank you Sergio. Job analysis is done in human resource universe. There are attempts to lists all the tasks done by health workers and ask how frequently they do it, how competent they feel and also how important or critical that job is. This is the kind of data I am looking for. How frequently , for example , medical doctors do a specific procedure is the kind of data I am looking for. Such data can inform training- pre or in-service training.

Abiy

You can find some works with doctors and health professionals using activity theory made by Ygro Engestron, in Finland.

Thank you Adson. Can I get that ?

Hi Dr Sinke,

If you are looking for an analysis of the work done by General Practitioners there is a very comprehensive database collected over eighteen years at the University of Sydney. They have good expertise in capturing this sort of information. This data is specific to General Practice in Australia but some information can be extrapolated to other societies. The question asked to collect the data was: "What activities does a General Practitioner in Australia undertake on a daily basis in their office?"

The link to the website is:  http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/fmrc/beach/index.php

thank you very much Taras for the link. i will look into it.

You are welcome Dr Sinke!

Dear Abiy Hiruye Sinke

p;ease check the pdfs

Nirmala, thank you so much for the article. it is so helpful especially to know the task lists of GP in other countries.

Abiy

you are welcome.

The very question you ask is so important but it opens up a huge can of worms. Why? Because any data collected for a such a study would need to drill down on the particular circumstances of the individual practitioner at the particular stage of his or her life, circumstances, remuneration or not for doing the skill that here she may have learned yet not have an opportunity to institute because of practical reasons. My own trajectory over 50 years of practice it is a very good example of that, which I won't bore you with right now . Suffice it to say that it will be different for each individual. More important would be the battery of skills that a true generalist trainee SHOULD learn, realizing they will then pick and choose which ones will be apropos at the various times of his/her life and the various circumstances in which they practice. Also, how often certain skills are used depends upon on the population as well as the availability of others with overlapping skills practicing in the same locale. Therefore, most analyses will only be a snapshot at a moment in time -- valuable, but not conclusive.