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The biggest change in the medical curriculum is incorporating a general internship, previously the first postgraduate year after 6 years of undergraduate studies, into the 6^th undergraduate year. For the family medicine it gives 3 more study weeks during the 6^th year (making totally 7 weeks at the 6^th year) and a special exam of family medicine at the end.

The postgraduate curriculum is unchanged, it is 3 postgraduate years of residency.

A new system of doctors' recertification is under discussion with the previous system of compulsory CME abolished. CME is highly recommended and professional organizations are at the position to define the final requirements for CME. A general agreement seems to be that recertification after every 5 years should be kept, incentives for doctors to pass this recertification must be found.

The department of family medicine at the Tartu University celebrated its 10^th anniversary at the end of august, it is considered one of the most modern clinical departments at our medical faculty due to a variety of its teaching methods.