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Basic Medical Education

The Departments of Family Medicine from the Medical Universities established new curriculum, which are no more primary health care oriented than the former ones. The Departments' personnel scheme was enlarged; the newly employed staffs are not only family doctors but also all sorts of specialists.

The training in Family Medicine lasts at least 3 weeks (45 hours of practice who should take place in a GP setting and 30 hours of courses).

Postgraduate specialist training

There have been no major changes into the Residentship Program since the last meeting.

The National Center for Postgraduate Education is about to organize the second in-training residentship program in Family Medicine for those family doctors who have no VT. The training scheme and the curriculum will be the same as in the previous program. Is intended that the teachers will be the trainers in Family Medicine.

Continuing Medical Education

A common decision of The Ministry of Education and of The Ministry of Health stated that all the postgraduate training has to be organized only by Universities. Taking into account that the family doctors are very rarely working in the Universities the only conclusion could be that, from now on, the CME for family doctors would be provide mainly by specialists. This decision also supposes the exclusion of the trainers in Family Medicine from the educational process even if they have already worked in CME and in VT having also the recognition of the Ministry of Health. These seems difficult to understand as long as the National Center for Postgraduate Education is preparing a new curriculum for training the trainers accredited at the national level.

Family Medicine

In June officially started the QualyMed project sponsored by The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project will be implemented by the Center for Studies in Family Medicine and a group of enthusiastic family doctors (most of them are trainers in Family Medicine) started the training necessary in order to produce several guidelines. The invited experts are Dutch and Romanian teachers.