Contact EURACT

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(32) 16 33 74 64

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(32) 16 33 74 80

PORTUGAL

In general

New President of Medical Association, very much interested in General Practice. Created an informal group of GPs to influence new outcomes. Two are EURACT members (myself and Dr. Dolores Quintal).

New Government, previous Minister of Health back, previous Health Secretaries back – but new ideas and the will to start new health politics, hopefully based upon primary care Improvement.

Also GPs as Minister counsellors (2 are EURACT members: Dr. Regina Carlos and Dr. Victor Ramos, first Portuguese representative).

Primary Care law from the last government is to be changed, as GPs wanted and fought for! The core of the system will be small GP units, allowing different types of management.

BME

No news.

VT

New 4 years programme waiting for Minister approval. Last changes on programme to be done quickly. Trying to introduce changes to evaluation system (on all specialities).

New Minister shows interest in changing the rate Specialists/GPs (which is 3 to 1!!!), and decided to open 360 new training places for GP VT. That will imply a lot of work trying to find suitable Trainers and training posts.

CME

Criteria for CME events approved by all Colleges, just waiting to be made official by the Medical Association.

Medical Association showed interest in starting work on CME/CDP. I will possibly work on it.

Work done as a EURACT Council member

One new Portuguese member joined EURACT, the Coordinator for VT in Northern Portugal. Two others are going to join in later, one is the Coordinator for VT in the Center Portugal.

Started to create interest on the “Rolling Course”. Already two candidates.

Presented EURACT work and papers in ADSO meeting.

ADSO is just waiting for the Lillafured meeting to translate, publish and distribute the “Educational Agenda“ and the new EURACT short version of the 2002 Definition to all Trainers and Teachers.

Went on collecting fee and keeping contact, through e-mail and post, with all Portuguese members. Certificates, as well as all relevant EURACT papers were sent.