European Journal of General Practice
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EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE22nd INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE Bled, Slovenia: 24–28 September 2013 Mateja Bulc & Jo Buchanan To cite this article: Mateja Bulc & Jo Buchanan (2014) EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE22nd INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE Bled, Slovenia: 24–28 September 2013, European Journal of General Practice, 20:1, 82-82 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13814788.2013.872622
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It is important to attract young doctors to rural family doctors’ practices and to promote the training of residents in rural practices. It is necessary to ask the community to help with accommodation and transport for young GPs. GP practices are open to patients for 40 h per week and each GP works in the practice 20–25 h a week, the rest of the time he/she attends patients in their homes (attending children if it is necessary, doing palliative care and administration. The bureaucratic burden on family doctors has recently increased and takes a lot of time. We know that there are similar problems in many family doctors’ practices in Europe. We should like to invite colleagues from our neighbouring countries, from across Europe and also global rural family physician representatives to take part in our Forum for discussion, sharing experiences, and at the same time to get to know our country and it ’s capital Riga.
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22nd INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE Bled, Slovenia: 24–28 September 2013 Under the patronage of the European Academy of Teachers in GP/FP (EURACT), the Slovene Family Medicine Society, including the Department of Family Practice, University of Ljubljana, the Department of Family Practice, University of Maribor, the Institute of Family Medicine and the OZG Primary Health Care Center Bled, organized the 22nd International EURACT Bled course, on 24–28 September 2013. As usual, the course was held in Bled, Slovenia. This year’s subject was ‘Learning and teaching about doctors’ wellbeing ’. Healthy doctors are a prerequisite for healthy patients. We know that family medicine can be a risky and stressful business. Family doctors, like other health professionals, are at risk for a number of adverse outcomes because of their work. The demands of the profession and the pressures of modern life expose doctors to increased risk for professional burnout, alcoholism, drug abuse, anxiety, depression, suicide and divorce. However, many doctors avoid this and have long, happy careers and live balanced lives. There is much to learn from them. In this course, we discussed some of the risk factors and adverse outcomes that might occur in family medicine, we explored and analysed successful ways of preventing burnout and coping with these issues to increase physician’s chances of having satisfying and productive careers. Target audience were teachers in family medicine/general practice, involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education: 65 experienced senior teachers as well as juniors at the beginning of their educational careers from 15 countries attended this course. Course directors this autumn were: Jaime Correia de Sousa and Yonah Yaphe (Portugal), Jo Buchanan (UK), Henry Finnegan (Ireland), Janko Kersnik and Mateja Bulc (Slovenia). The traditional schedule of Bled EURACT courses is a morning plenary session, which is followed by work in four groups, which remain the same for the week, discussing the keynote’s topic. The first keynote lecture was ‘Doctors’ wellbeing ’, offered by Jaime Correia de Sousa, followed by group work exploring problems with treating colleagues,
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2013.872622
Mateja Bulc Department of Family Medicine Medical Faculty of Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected] Jo Buchanan Sheffield, UK [email protected] [email protected] http://www.euract.eu
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managing difficult trainees or students. Second keynote was ‘ Treating medical professionals’ by Jo Buchanan; followed by group discussion on the skills, needed for treating medical professionals. In the afternoon we participated in the famous Bled Course’s Field work, this year topic was ‘Meeting the old, happy doctors: How did you manage?’. The third day started with Yonah Yaphe’s keynote Student, trainee or colleague in trouble. Group work followed, with exercises on ‘How to manage colleague/trainee/student in trouble’ and preparing the final module. Friday started with Henry Finnegan’s keynote ‘How to teach trainee to remain healthy?’, the groups explored the role of art, humanities and hobbies in maintaining one’s health. The famous traditional Joker Session by Igor Švab was on the attributes of an ideal death and treating the dying doctor. Saturdays are always dedicated first to participating countries’ reports ‘What is new in the teaching/research area in my country ’. Group presentations follow—all working groups presented their final teaching module on doctors’ wellbeing. Target populations for the modules were students, trainees or established doctors in their CME/CPD courses. Course participants can take these modules home and use them in their teaching. Many countries follow this recommendation and organize their own repetitions of Bled course for their teachers in family medicine, by themselves or with a little help from the Bled Course directors. The feedback session, evaluating the course, revealed that all participants enjoyed the course, in particular the company of fellow doctors who are teachers in family medicine, the field work, the in depth group work and also the social programme. Many participants assessed the course as the best so far.
News EUROPREV: EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION IN FAMILY MEDICINE & GENERAL PRACTICE
EUROPREV News 2013
The new Wonca Europe President, Professor Job FM Metsemakers, announced during the 2013 Joint Wonca Europe Meeting that the EUROPREV Policy Statement on Prevention and Health Promotion in Primary Care had been adopted by Wonca World in spring 2013. This statement had been compiled in May 2010 by EUROPREV in collaboration with the Norwegian College of General Practitioners, and approved by the Wonca Europe Council in Malaga, Spain, in October 2010.
NEW EUROPREV WEBSITE EUROPREV POLICY STATEMENT ON PREVENTION 2010 APPROVED BY WONCA WORLD Until 2013, the EUROPREV website had been hosted by semFYC—the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine. As EUROPREV is a network organization within Wonca Europe, EUROPREV chair Professor Mateja Bulc asked if the EUROPREV website could be hosted on Wonca Europe’s new website, and this request was kindly accepted. Under the direction of Dr Mario R Sammut as Chairman of the EUROPREV Website Editorial Board, Board Secretary Ms Nina
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2013.877131
Mario R. Sammut EUROPREV Public Relations Officer 2011–2013 EUROPREV Coordinating Group Member 1999–2013 EUROPREV National Representative for Malta 1998–2013 [email protected] http://europrev. woncaeurope.org/
ISSN: 1381-4788 (Print) 1751-1402 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/igen20
EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE22nd INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE Bled, Slovenia: 24–28 September 2013 Mateja Bulc & Jo Buchanan To cite this article: Mateja Bulc & Jo Buchanan (2014) EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE22nd INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE Bled, Slovenia: 24–28 September 2013, European Journal of General Practice, 20:1, 82-82 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13814788.2013.872622
Published online: 21 Jan 2014.
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It is important to attract young doctors to rural family doctors’ practices and to promote the training of residents in rural practices. It is necessary to ask the community to help with accommodation and transport for young GPs. GP practices are open to patients for 40 h per week and each GP works in the practice 20–25 h a week, the rest of the time he/she attends patients in their homes (attending children if it is necessary, doing palliative care and administration. The bureaucratic burden on family doctors has recently increased and takes a lot of time. We know that there are similar problems in many family doctors’ practices in Europe. We should like to invite colleagues from our neighbouring countries, from across Europe and also global rural family physician representatives to take part in our Forum for discussion, sharing experiences, and at the same time to get to know our country and it ’s capital Riga.
News EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE
22nd INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE Bled, Slovenia: 24–28 September 2013 Under the patronage of the European Academy of Teachers in GP/FP (EURACT), the Slovene Family Medicine Society, including the Department of Family Practice, University of Ljubljana, the Department of Family Practice, University of Maribor, the Institute of Family Medicine and the OZG Primary Health Care Center Bled, organized the 22nd International EURACT Bled course, on 24–28 September 2013. As usual, the course was held in Bled, Slovenia. This year’s subject was ‘Learning and teaching about doctors’ wellbeing ’. Healthy doctors are a prerequisite for healthy patients. We know that family medicine can be a risky and stressful business. Family doctors, like other health professionals, are at risk for a number of adverse outcomes because of their work. The demands of the profession and the pressures of modern life expose doctors to increased risk for professional burnout, alcoholism, drug abuse, anxiety, depression, suicide and divorce. However, many doctors avoid this and have long, happy careers and live balanced lives. There is much to learn from them. In this course, we discussed some of the risk factors and adverse outcomes that might occur in family medicine, we explored and analysed successful ways of preventing burnout and coping with these issues to increase physician’s chances of having satisfying and productive careers. Target audience were teachers in family medicine/general practice, involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education: 65 experienced senior teachers as well as juniors at the beginning of their educational careers from 15 countries attended this course. Course directors this autumn were: Jaime Correia de Sousa and Yonah Yaphe (Portugal), Jo Buchanan (UK), Henry Finnegan (Ireland), Janko Kersnik and Mateja Bulc (Slovenia). The traditional schedule of Bled EURACT courses is a morning plenary session, which is followed by work in four groups, which remain the same for the week, discussing the keynote’s topic. The first keynote lecture was ‘Doctors’ wellbeing ’, offered by Jaime Correia de Sousa, followed by group work exploring problems with treating colleagues,
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2013.872622
Mateja Bulc Department of Family Medicine Medical Faculty of Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected] Jo Buchanan Sheffield, UK [email protected] [email protected] http://www.euract.eu
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managing difficult trainees or students. Second keynote was ‘ Treating medical professionals’ by Jo Buchanan; followed by group discussion on the skills, needed for treating medical professionals. In the afternoon we participated in the famous Bled Course’s Field work, this year topic was ‘Meeting the old, happy doctors: How did you manage?’. The third day started with Yonah Yaphe’s keynote Student, trainee or colleague in trouble. Group work followed, with exercises on ‘How to manage colleague/trainee/student in trouble’ and preparing the final module. Friday started with Henry Finnegan’s keynote ‘How to teach trainee to remain healthy?’, the groups explored the role of art, humanities and hobbies in maintaining one’s health. The famous traditional Joker Session by Igor Švab was on the attributes of an ideal death and treating the dying doctor. Saturdays are always dedicated first to participating countries’ reports ‘What is new in the teaching/research area in my country ’. Group presentations follow—all working groups presented their final teaching module on doctors’ wellbeing. Target populations for the modules were students, trainees or established doctors in their CME/CPD courses. Course participants can take these modules home and use them in their teaching. Many countries follow this recommendation and organize their own repetitions of Bled course for their teachers in family medicine, by themselves or with a little help from the Bled Course directors. The feedback session, evaluating the course, revealed that all participants enjoyed the course, in particular the company of fellow doctors who are teachers in family medicine, the field work, the in depth group work and also the social programme. Many participants assessed the course as the best so far.
News EUROPREV: EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION IN FAMILY MEDICINE & GENERAL PRACTICE
EUROPREV News 2013
The new Wonca Europe President, Professor Job FM Metsemakers, announced during the 2013 Joint Wonca Europe Meeting that the EUROPREV Policy Statement on Prevention and Health Promotion in Primary Care had been adopted by Wonca World in spring 2013. This statement had been compiled in May 2010 by EUROPREV in collaboration with the Norwegian College of General Practitioners, and approved by the Wonca Europe Council in Malaga, Spain, in October 2010.
NEW EUROPREV WEBSITE EUROPREV POLICY STATEMENT ON PREVENTION 2010 APPROVED BY WONCA WORLD Until 2013, the EUROPREV website had been hosted by semFYC—the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine. As EUROPREV is a network organization within Wonca Europe, EUROPREV chair Professor Mateja Bulc asked if the EUROPREV website could be hosted on Wonca Europe’s new website, and this request was kindly accepted. Under the direction of Dr Mario R Sammut as Chairman of the EUROPREV Website Editorial Board, Board Secretary Ms Nina
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2013.877131
Mario R. Sammut EUROPREV Public Relations Officer 2011–2013 EUROPREV Coordinating Group Member 1999–2013 EUROPREV National Representative for Malta 1998–2013 [email protected] http://europrev. woncaeurope.org/
