training

Year family medicine was established: 1979 (Abyad et al., 2007)

Type of Training: Residency program (Abyad et al., 2007)

Length of Training: 2 years (Abyad et al., 2007)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 2 (Obeidat et al., 2017)

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: 8 (Obeidat et al., 2017)r.

practice

Family doctor to patients ratio: 1:33,792 (Obeidat et al., 2017)

Physician to population ratio: 325 per 100 000 (International Statistics, n.d.)

Other Primary Care Deliverers:

DALY: 18,161 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 81.6 years

• Males 2017: 78.2 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 67 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 49 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 80%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• Yes: Lebanese Society of Family Medicine.

training

Physicians in Lebanon attend six years of medical school, followed by post-graduate specialties (http://www.bau.edu.lb/Medicine/Programs/Graduate). In their fourth year of medical school students participate in a one-month clerkship, following this, there is residency for 4 years (Obeidat et al., 2017)

practice

Family physicians mostly conduct regular consultations. Their role is essentially limited to managing and recommendations with little tangible intervention. There is very little demand for family doctors as there is no referral system and no gatekeeping (Helou & Rizk, 2016). Many also work in emergency departments and various hospitals (2016). Family physicians in Lebanon use a community-based model of primary care. Majority of these doctors work in private clinics (2016).