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SLOVENIA

Undergraduate education

The curriculum reform at the medical faculty is moving on slowly and with some resistance.

We have just had a major discussion about the changes in the undergraduate programme for the academic year 2002/2003.

But the main breakthrough was the publication of the textbook on family medicine. The book is rather heavy (800 pages) and is a major improvement from our textbook ten years ago. We have already sold half of all copies, which is an incredible success for the summer period.

Vocational training

We still have major problems with the medical chamber regarding vocational training. The workshops we have introduced as the organised form of vocational training in general practice are not being paid, so we had to stop for a while. Further negotiations with the representatives of the chamber and the association of the directors of health centres are being prepared and hopefully we are going to be successful.

There is still a problem because the internist who is appointing examiners for the final exam of vocational training is still appointing other specialists to our end exam! We are furious, but there is little we can do. He has been informed about the situation and policies in Europe, but he just does not care.

CME

The Bled course was (again) a major success. The topic was medical errors and we have had almost 30 participants from all over Europe and about 20 Slovenian participants. 13 countries were represented. We have got a lot of coverage from the media and have even made it to the front page of a national magazine.

Preparations for the WONCA 2003 conference are well under way. The deadline for application of abstracts is October 31^st. We are hoping for a good contribution from EURACT.