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CROATIA

News from the country

All emphasis of the county (politicians and people) is putting on entering EU. As a transitional, country is still facing economic troubles which has a big influence on a health care system, including GP/FM, even more after last year elections. The attempt to introduce a comprehensive payment for GPs (capitation, preventive programmes and fee-for services) has been rejected and capitation remains the only option. Scientific Conference, has been organised by The Croatian Association of GP/FP has finished with great success. More than 800 GPs have participated, with around 200 scientific papers. A big group of Croatian GPs participated at WONCA Conference, Amsterdam.

Basic Medical Education

Many changes are going on within the medical schools. The two mains are: a) changing a curriculum toward PBL, rather horizontal and vertical integrations; b) organising the courses of medical education for teachers (basic educational theory and methodology). Department of FM is playing a great role in this process.

Vocational Training

Big changes have happened in this area. After, almost ten-years of break, 180 trainees have started VT. A training programme is organised in two ways, full time, “normal”, for young GPs and in-service training for experienced GPs. A textbook for VT is in progress and new assessment procedures for specialistic exam as well. It is a big task for the whole profession, especially for my Department, responsible for the implementation. We are reforming our postgraduate course, part of VT, with an attempt to get accreditation as European course within ASPHER.

CME

It is going on as usually, many courses and teaching sessions were held, because it is obligatory for relicensing procedures and it is hard to change from CME to CPD.

What have I done for EURACT

The “Yong doctor Project” was a great success of EURACT and mine too. The Croatians members are informed about EURACT activities, provided by materials, and whole profession is informed as a report in Croatian Journal of Family Physicians and during annual conference. Dubrovnik Course «Training of Teachers in GP/FM» was held from 3 May to 8 May 2004 (32 participants).