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Basic medical education

For political reasons the reform of the 4.-6.th year is stopped. So we will continue in the old way for the next years, waiting for the next accreditation. The only thing we are going to change are the lecture blocks because the students don't appear anymore in usual lectures.
It might be that they are not interesting enough, but we think as well that learning attitudes of the students have changed. So a new program has to be elaborated by the faculty where we as GP's contribute only a few. As I mentioned already in previous reports there are no important changes for GP during BME.

Postgraduate education

We had this year a great number of trainees that failed in the final GP exam. For this there are different reasons. As we have no structured VT, every doctor can try the exam. So we had a lot collegues which failed in other specialities who tried to become a GP. Or our mostly inhospital training is an insufficient training for the later GP-profession. So we are quite happy with the situation as we can show that our training doesn't work well, and that it's not so easy to become a GP when you failed somewhere else.

On the other hand no important changes within the system although we think to have proved the weakness of it.

CME

No news, we continue by supporting the local “quality-circles” (6-14 GP's), either for CME or for research.

Politics

The idea that raised in politicians heads is to form but one “medical school Switzerland” that means a go together of all the 5 faculties. For the first step we will reduce from 5 to 3 schools but no one knows how this should go. So the is great incertitude within all the faculties.

What have I done as a EURACT-member?

As the time between Vilnius and Leicester was very short, I have not done a lot of things as I have to admit. Distribution of information about our meetings and about the EURACT courses.