training

Year family medicine was established:

Type of Training: Residency program (Al’arabi et al., 2019)

Length of Training: 4 years (Al’arabi et al., 2019)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 10 (Al’arabi et al., 2019)

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: 10 (Al’arabi et al., 2019)

practice

Family doctor to patients ratio: unknown

Physician to population ratio: 129 per 100 000 (International Statistics, n.d.).

DALY: 14,414 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 75.1 years

• Males 2017: 69.3 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 170 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 95 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 97%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• NO

Training:

Medical School includes 1 year intro subjects, 3 years on advanced sciences and 1-2 years clinical subjects. 1 year rotations. The training in Libya entails 4 years of residency at the Al Arab Medical University established Department of Family and Community Medicine under its clinic. Ran by 5 teachers.

practice

Family physicians manage common ailments and problems, conduct regular check-ups and deliver infants. Great emphasis is placed on providing holistic treatment throughout the patient’s life5. Polyclinics exist with various primary care workers, like GPs, health officers and nurses (Al’arabi et al., 2019). These doctors are not considered gatekeepers (2019). The primary model of care is the family health model. Medical units/centers and polyclinics are collectively known as primary health care (PHC) (2019). Libya’s family medicine program is severely underdeveloped. Very few trained family physicians work in the health units that do exist. Moreover, medical units are severely under-staffed and under-resourced. Significant patient dissatisfaction exists. One family medicine programme exists at the Al-Keesh polyclinic; it is run by 5 staff and serves a a few students while providing care to roughly 5,000 people. Conditions are even worse in rural areas (Abyad et al., 2017; Al’arabi et al., 2019).