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LITHUANIA

Health Care System

Development of General Practice in Lithuania can be considered as stable process now. Unfortunately, development of private practices has slowed down, mainly due to problems in financing of primary care institutions. So, the expected process of changing primary health care providers from big polyclinics to small private practices is actually almost stopped.

Vocational training

It looks that we are going to face the same problems in training GPs as other Eastern and Central European countries – reduced number of postgraduate trainees choosing general practice as the desired discipline. This year was the first one when number of GP training places at the Universities exceeded number of applications.

Postgraduate training

Good news – Lithuanian Society of General Practice Teachers already translated The European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine into Lithuanian. The definition will be issued during few following weeks and distributed in Universities, Ministry of Health and other institutions. We hope that this will provide more information about FM, and strengthen the position of FM in our country.

Future

Lithuanian GP teachers are looking forward to hosting the next EURACT meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, Spring 2003.