dc.contributor.author	Krztoń-Królewiecka, Anna
dc.contributor.author	Švab, Igor
dc.contributor.author	Oleszczyk, Marek
dc.contributor.author	Seifert, Bohumil
dc.contributor.author	Smithson, W. Henry
dc.contributor.author	Windak, Adam
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-08T09:16:10Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-08T09:16:10Z
dc.date.issued	2013-03-07
dc.date.updated	2018-10-08T09:04:37Z
dc.description.abstract	Background: Since the early 1990s former communist countries have been reforming their health care systems, emphasizing the key role of primary care and recognizing family medicine as a specialty and an academic discipline. This study assesses the level of academic development of the discipline characterised by education and research in central and eastern European (CEE) countries. Methods: A key informants study, using a questionnaire developed on the basis of a systematic literature review and panel discussions, conducted in 11 central and eastern European countries and Russia. Results: Family medicine in CEE countries is now formally recognized as a medical specialty and successfully introduced into medical training at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Almost all universities have FM/GP departments, but only a few of them are led by general practitioners. The specialist training programmes in all countries except Russia fulfil the recommendations of the European Parliament. Structured support for research in FM/GP is not always available. However specific scientific organisations function in almost all countries except Russia. Scientific conferences are regularly organised in all the countries, but peer-reviewed journals are published in only half of them. Conclusions: Family medicine has a relatively strong position in medical education in central and eastern Europe, but research in family practice is less developed. Although the position of the discipline at the universities is not very strong, most of the CEE countries can serve as an example of successful academic development for countries southern Europe, where family medicine is still not fully recognised.	en
dc.description.status	Peer reviewed	en
dc.description.version	Published Version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.articleid	37
dc.identifier.citation	Krztoń-Królewiecka, A., Švab, I., Oleszczyk, M., Seifert, B., Smithson, W. H. and Windak, A. (2013) 'The development of academic family medicine in central and eastern Europe since 1990', BMC Family Practice, 14, 37 (10pp). doi:10.1186/1471-2296-14-37	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1186/1471-2296-14-37
dc.identifier.issn	1471-2296
dc.identifier.journaltitle	BMC Family Practice	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10468/6988
dc.identifier.volume	14	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	BioMed Central Ltd.	en
dc.rights	© 2013, Krzton-Królewiecka et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0	en
dc.subject	Family medicine	en
dc.subject	General practice	en
dc.subject	Medical education	en
dc.subject	Medical research	en
dc.subject	Central and eastern Europe	en
dc.title	The development of academic family medicine in central and eastern Europe since 1990	en
dc.type	Article (peer-reviewed)	en

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