Contact EURACT

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(32) 16 33 74 64

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(32) 16 33 74 80

POLAND

Undergraduate education

No major changes in the field of BME. New law about minimum curriculum in family medicine is still somewhere in the desks of civil servants. At the moment each school provides its own programme.

Postgraduate education

There is a shortage of training places. This situation lasts already since several years. Ministry of Health stopped financial support for the training centres nearly two years ago. Most of them (at least biggest ones) belong to the universities, which are not keen to devote large amount of money for the training of family physicians. So, although both technical possibilities and surplus of candidates exist, nothing can be done.

Continuous Professional Development

There is no formal regulation in this field. The Chamber of Physicians issued some kind of suggestions, however without any practical solution for it. CME is completely voluntary. The College of Family Physicians in Poland runs the CME school which provides workshops and seminars for GPs in whole country. This initiative is well admitted and on average two to three hundreds doctors attend each training session. There are two or three of them organized each week in different places. The fees of pharmaceutical companies, which want to have a booth on the conference, support the school. The work on the distance-learning programme is in progress.

What I have done in my country as a EURACT Council member?

EURACT was presented during the plenary session of the National Congress of Family Medicine, attended by twelve hundreds of doctors. The Board of the College of Family Physicians in Poland was informed about the rolling course plans.