training

Type of Training: 2 academic years, 44 weeks each, following a rotation system.

Length of Training: Post-graduate training (2 years)

Year family medicine established: 1997 (Rrumbullaku et al., 2002)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: There is one university, the Medical University of Tirana that teaches family medicine (Brekke et al., 2013)

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: unknown

practice

Number of family doctors in country: unknown

Physician to population ratio: 120 physicians per 100,000 people.

Number of family doctors in country (2016): 1,412 family physicians (Eurostat, 2016)

Physician to population ratio (2006): 56.1 family physicians per 100,000 people (Masseria et al., 2009).

DALY: 15,921 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 80.6 years

• Males 2017: 76.5 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 94 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 50 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 99%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• No

training

Family medicine was established in 1997 (Rrumbullaku et al., 2002). 2 years of post-graduate training is required for family physicians. Only one university, the Medical University of Tirana teaches family medicine (Brekke et al., 2013).

practice

The Department of Family Medicine was established in 1996 as an independent department with the support of the European Union PHARE project (Rrumbullaku et al., 2002).wn.