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Annex 4 EURACT Council meeting CME/CPD COMMITTEE MEETING April 21st 2005 Present: Samira Herenda, Jan Heyrman, Jaroslava Lankova, Iuliana Popa, Ruta Riba, Paula Vainiomäki (chair and reporter), Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic.
Paula Vainiomäki Report of Specific Training Committee Present: Dolores Fores, Margus Lember, Janos Szabo ,Monica Lindh, Fergus O'Kelly, Llukan Rrumbullaku, Bernhard Rindlisbacher, Roger Price, Mario R. Sammut, Smiljka Radic and Roar Maagaard (chair). The new representatives from Serbia-Montenegro, Smiljka Radic; from Malta, Mario R. Sammut and from UK, Roger Price – a very warm welcome to Smiljka, Mario and Roger and thanks for their participation in this Committee. We decided to concentrate on the 5 items we already decided in the Aarhus meeting – and a supplementary point 6 (see below). 1. Trainee Assessment Jan Heyrman had made a new version of the educational agenda derived from “New Definitions”. Our committee had given input to this new version – especially in relation to teaching and assessment methods. It was decided to consider further input – and Monica should be the person collecting input – disseminating the comments – and finally send the final input to Jan H. Responsible for reading the Educational Agenda, version 2 and think of changes: all! Responsible for collecting our suggestions in this area and feed-backing to Jan: Monica. Answers to Monica by 21st of May – and answer from Monica to Jan: 31st of May. 2. Selection of trainees/recruitment of trainees In April/May 2004 a questionnaire was sent to all council members. 28 answers were received. Llukan and Fergus had compiled data and presented an overview of the answers. Margus is going to make a literature review about the subject – first part of it has already been conducted – it will be finalised till the Kos Conference. We planned our Kos workshop in more detail: Title: How to recruit and select your future colleagues? Our plan is to produce several short presentations (Margus, Fergus, Dolores, Bernhard, Monica – at least) and with the audience discuss different items that could result in recommendations (introductory period? start of training takes place in GP? GP-course organisers to select? personal interview? use of references? written application?) – and afterwards produce a short statement to the website with recommendations. Responsible for finalising the literature review (before Kos): Margus. Responsible for showing up at Kos conference: Roger, Dolores, Bernhard, Monica, Margus, Llukan, Fergus and Roar. Responsible for chairing the preparation process: Roar. 3. Structure and length of VT-programmes across Europe We all agreed that a basis for our discussion – and for individual council members national discussions – should be knowledge of the European “landscape” – therefore we desperately miss the well-known Excelfile on the internet!!! – this file has been promised to us several times earlier – and we feel we have to adjust the level of ambitions to a realistic level! We want it on the web as soon as possible. We still hope that we with this landscape in mind should be able to give some statements/recommendations regarding VT-programmes:
We think it is important to build our judgement on the necessary competencies to become a GP – some of these (many) can only be learnt in GP. Studying the New Definitions we find 2 year the minimum training length in GP-setting. European recommendations today talk about a minimum of 3 years training – and minimum half the time in GP. Responsible for keeping this discussion alive in the VT-group till next meeting: Roar. 4. Financing/supporting VT-programmes Dolores had been responsible for making a survey-draft and a discussion paper – but as Dolores unfortunately was not present in Aarhus – there had been a temporary pause in this process. It is a very serious problem in many countries: in some countries nearly no supporting funds; in some countries pharmaceutical companies take part; in some countries the trainee has to by his practice-part before being trained. So we still put these questions: Who is financing VT? How is the supporting structure around VT? Obstacles and possibilities. We wish to discover and describe the differences somewhat more in this field. It might be a topic for a future Council meeting. Responsible for next steps: Dolores, Bernard and Monica – Bernard and Monica very willing to contribute! 5. Trainee forum Very much inspiration was obtained from the Junior Doctors' Project in combination with the Wonca Europe Conference in Amsterdam, June 2004. This project has given birth to the Vasco da Gama Movement. We welcome this movement very much – and certainly will offer this new movement a relationship. Responsible for offering a relationship to the Vasco da Gama Movement: Roar. 6. Trainer selection EURACT has produced guidelines on trainer selection some years ago. It was discussed if an update was necessary – also if it was necessary to make national adaptations to this European guidelines. At least in some countries there still is a great need for training and supporting trainers Closing remark: due to possible national obligations appearing in autumn 2005 Roar might at this time have to ask for replacement as chair of this committee. Responsible: all have to read and reflect on the Selection of trainers guidelines (www.euract.org). Roar Maagaard Report of Member Service Committee Present: Justin Allen, Athanasios Simeonidis, Luis Filipe Gomes, Janko Kersnik, Igor Svab, Adam Windak.
FG is approved by the Council as the chair of MSC
Countries that provided names of participants, their CVs and support letters: were approved by the Council to be sponsored on the basis decided earlier – e.g. four participants from each country will be paid accommodation fee during the course days, course fee for the course. The course starts on 22nd of May, ends on 25th, departure on 26th. Participants themselves will pay travel expenses and additional days of stay in the hotel. Travel expenses of trainers will be paid by organizers – Turkish society of family doctors and EURACT, which allocated 6000 EUR for the activity. Two paying members also will join the training course. Concerning the Cyprus members the discussion on the difficult situation on GP in the country revealed common understanding that active GPs, if they are supported by the national organization of GPs, will be invited to join he course on the same basis as other countries. The Council approved support for the applicants of Cyprus if they provide the support letter from the Society of General Practitioners. It was decided to send the course materials o Turkey by mail for the course participants as well as to the Council members, costs included to he list of expenses. Special certificates for the course will be printed by AW and brought to Kusadasi. The next Leonardo-EURACT course will take place in Faro (Portugal) on 17-21 May 2006 (place and time to be confirmed). The same amount of 6000 EUR will be allocated for the course for covering travel of teachers and course organizational expenses. Countries that will be invited to join the course are Italy, Portugal, Malta, Ireland, and Spain. Also EURACT is going to secure 12 places for participants who are going to pay themselves the fee of 400 EUR (with the 50 EUR reduction for EURACT actual members), as well as travel and accommodation expenses. The decision was taken to promote the Portugal course during the WONCA Europe conference in Kos by producing leaflets. The leaflets will be made by AW, the first version discussed in Kusadasi, brought to Kos and distributed there during the workshop and through EURACT booth. ACTION POINTS:
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