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Undergraduate education

No major changes in the field of BME. We are still waiting for a final approval of the Board for Higher Education to rise minimum curriculum in family medicine up to 80 hours. Due to the financial constrains the decision is continuously postponed.

Postgraduate education

Rather unstable situation. This year for the first time since 8 years there was no any single residency post founded by Ministry of Health. The authorities declare that this is only due to temporary financial problems. On the same time there are still many candidates who want to start their training. However there is still lack of training places and only part of them (about 60%) can really enter the training, but all of them without salary from the government. On the same time Ministry of Health gave money to the universities to pay for postgraduate training. We have to compete for this money with specialists. Results uncertain.

Continuous Professional Development

A little progress in this field. Still the process dominated by pharmaceutical companies

Other issues

In June 2002 we celebrated 10^th anniversary of the College, currently chaired by me. On this occasion we held a huge Congress in Warsaw with over 1000 participants. The Congress revealed a big success of our organization, however it showed also a scope of the problems existing in the society of family physicians.