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Basic Medical Education

The undergraduate study of the Family Medicine seems to be neglected. Even there are courses and practical activities scheduled, most of the time the content has nothing to do with the discipline. Most of the teachers in Family Medicine have other specialities and most of the time the students are not spending any time in practices. The curriculum is based on the rehearsal of some clinical knowledge from other specialities.

Postgraduate specialist training

The rules for admission into the residency had been changed. Still there is a national exam but it is organized upon specialities in different medical universities. The doctors have to choose from the beginning the speciality for which they are competing. The bibliography has also been changed-for the first time some foreign medical literature has to be studied. There are 600 places for residentship in Family Medicine this year.

Continuing Medical Education

The National College of Physicians is planning to introduce “the doctors'log book” in order to keep a better evidence of the participation to CME and of the credit points gathered. It will contain diplomas from courses, conferences and seminars, copies of the articles or books written and published, subscriptions from medical journals.

Family Medicine

In July, a national conference of the family doctors took place in Iasi; there were more than 800 participants from all over the country. It was the first conference where most of the papers presented were made by family doctors and not by other specialists. Also for the first time, the National Centre for Studies in Family Medicine presented the 5 guidelines that are developed in the QualyMed project. Important matters concerning the statute of the family doctors were also discussed.

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

As national representative I prepared a report of the Vilnius meeting for the Romanian EURACT members and I kept them informed about the Bled course and about the General Meeting held in Ljibliana asking those who were there to participate.

I tried to bring new members by one to one discussions with the trainers in family medicine.

I presented the new definition as a EURACT initiative at The National Conference of the Family Doctors held in Iasi.

I published an article concerning the new definition in the magazine of the Medical University in Craiova.

As for CPD document, I had to translate it in Romanian in order to make it more accessible and understandable for the recipients.