TRAINING
Year Family Medicine was Established: 2005
Length of Medical School: 6 years
Length of Training Program: 3 years
Type of Training: Residency
Number of Institutions That Offer Family Medicine Training: 1 institution
Number of Trainees: Unknown
PRACTICE
Little is currently known about Kosovo’s training system or practice for family physicians.
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: N/A per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).
Life Expectancy:
Females 2017: N/A years
Males 2017: N/A years
Mortality rate 2017:
2017 Males: N/A per 1,000 male adults.
2017 Females: N/A per 1,000 female adults.
Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: N/A
College of Family Physicians (Y or N): No
References
Brekke, M., Carelli, F., Zarbailov, N., Javashvili, G., Wilm, S., Timonen, M., & Tandeter, H. 2013. “Undergraduate Medical Education in General Practice/Family Medicine throughout Europe-a Descriptive Study.” http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/157.
Hedley, R., & Maxhuni, B. (2005). Development of family medicine in Kosovo. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 331(7510), 201–203. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7510.201
Raka, L., & Dedushaj, I. (2011). Medical education in Kosova. Medical teacher, 33(4), e173–e177. https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2011.545843
Rawlinson, G., Mecini, I.R., and Hopayian, K. 2016. “Family Medicine on the Rise in Kosovo.” The British Journal of General Practice: The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 66 (653): 614. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp16X688129 .