Changes to the framework course program in family medicine

The draft regulation gives new wording to the appendix to the Ministry of Health's Regulation of May 21, 2019 on the framework course program in family medicine, i.e. the framework course program. This will allow the provision of health care services in the field of PCP to be maintained at a high level, regardless of whether health care services are provided by a family medicine doctor or other related specialties.

The changes introduced by the draft ordinance mainly concern the subject matter of the course program. The revised course curriculum will cover: organization of the provision of health care for the recipient and his family, coordination of health care for the recipient in the health care system, adopted digital solutions, teleportation and telemedicine in PCP, health needs assessment and the establishment of health priorities of the population under care and the implementation of preventive measures, reduction or elimination of risks and problems of physical and mental health, providing health promotion and preventive health care adapted to the needs of different groups of the population, including the organization of immunization of children and adults and management of overweight and obesity recognition, providing education of the recipient in relation to responsibility for their own health and formation of pro-health awareness, selected dental problems. Clinical problems that doctors learn about during specialty training in general medicine, internal medicine or pediatrics or in practice while practicing medicine have been dropped from the course curriculum. Another major change relates to the form of instruction, the classroom mode was abandoned and replaced by an e-learning form. Other changes relate to the designation of a specialist in family medicine as the course director, while allowing the implementation of individual parts of the course by doctors of the specialty to which the subject matter relates, reducing the duration of the course to 80 didactic hours carried out over 10 days, and abandoning colloquia on individual thematic parts and practical skills test, while leaving the final test test.

Thanks to a change in the course program:

1) the cost of the course will almost triple;

2) The introduction of the e-learning form of the course will help increase the number of courses held during the year and thus the number of doctors who will take the course;

3) Doctors who do not have a specialty in family medicine will remain in the POZ;

Updating doctors' knowledge of modern methods of providing health services using digital tools.

Project: TU

Source: RCL