Performance of participants on diagnosing and prescribing treatment and advise when presented with three practical cases of noma patients. A correct diagnosis was given 0.75 points and each treatment or advice mentioned was given 0.25 points (except referral which scored 0.5). Data is presented as totals and segregated by highest educational level. Secondary level was omitted as it was only represented by one participant. To assess differences between the two educational levels, Fisher’s exact test was used for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney U test for numerical variables except those with a superscript star (*) which were tested with a T-test as they were parametric. Statistics in bold were statistically significant (p<.05).

Performance of participants on diagnosing and prescribing treatment and advise when presented with three practical cases of noma patients. A correct diagnosis was given 0.75 points and each treatment or advice mentioned was given 0.25 points (except referral which scored 0.5). Data is presented as totals and segregated by highest educational level. Secondary level was omitted as it was only represented by one participant. To assess differences between the two educational levels, Fisher’s exact test was used for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney U test for numerical variables except those with a superscript star (*) which were tested with a T-test as they were parametric. Statistics in bold were statistically significant (p<.05).