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News from Health Insurance

Besides obligatory, an additional, volontary, health insurance was introduced. In previous times, different types of participations (drugs, some diagnostic's tests, specialistic's consulatation, hospitals) were paid directly by the patients. Now, they are covered by additional insurance. Certain groups of populations do not need to have additional insurance: children, school children and students, and people under a certain ammount of income (poore people).

News from GP Assotiation

Annual Conference was held in May in Dubrovnik, about 800 GPs participated, almost 1/3 of all Croatian GPs, 120 scientific's papers were presented (different quality). Michael Boland, president of World WONCA, was giving introductory speech as well as Chris van Weel. The other two scientific meetings (symposiums) will be held in October and November. A topic of the first is "The reforms in Health Care servicis and their implications on GP/FM". The second is devoted to the professionals working in Primary Health Care, including nurses and public nurses, and the main topic is education.

Undergraduate education

Is continuing on regular basis, GP/FM subject is at 6^th year, last 4 weeks, a Hanbook for Teachers and Student - A Study Guide, is going to be finished these days. It contains: a description of subject, general objectives, organization and timetable, methods of evaluations and assessments, and description of each learning unit, including specific objectives, methods of teaching, organization and timetable.

Postgraduate education-Vocational training

Postgraduate education is a part of vocational training (organised teaching), but it can finished with master deegre. Vocational Training, specialization, is not going to start in a planned number this outum, but our minister promissed nex year (not believe to the polititians). As I described in previous report (Maastricht), the profession and the departments of GP/FM are ready to accept a large number of trainees. Several courses for trainers are planed to the end of the year.

CME

Is going on regular basis, as a part of recertification procedures.