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LITHUANIA

Basic medical education

Still introduction to family medicine starts on the 6th year of undergraduate studies. Now duration of the course is 2 weeks, basics of general practice are introduced during the course. We have some hope that after EURACT meeting in Vilnius, where some very important academic persons was present, we might try to introduce some training based on primary care earlier in the curriculum.

Vocational training

Since this year vocational training for Family Medicine is 3 years. Vocational training programme still needs to be more based on ambulatory care rather than hospital-based training, but in this aspect no major changes are announced yet. The big problem in Universities now is the very limited amount of young researchers and physicians which want to start their academic career, mostly due to the poor financial situation. Also each year less and less young doctors choose the vocational training in Family Medicine.

Continuous professional development

Some important steps have been taken during last year to limit enormous amount of one-drug conferences in Lithuania. Now only conferences and seminars which are organized by Universities can give doctors credit points for licensing. That was attempt to control information on medications as well as aggressive promotion of drugs.