TRAINING

Year family medicine established: unknown

Type of Training: Residency (World Health Organization, 2012)

Length of Training: Medical school (6 years), with a training program in family medicine for 15 days in the 5th year, post-graduate training (3 years) (WHO, 2012)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: There is 1 university that has post-graduate training in family medicine called Nicolae Testemițanu State University of 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: approximately 56 per 100 000 (One family physician sees about 1800 patients) (WHO, 2012).

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: 20,892 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 76.0 years

• Males 2017: 67.4 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 239 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 97 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 94%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• No

training

Current training for family physicians is through a residency program (WHO, 2012). Medical school is 6 years, with a training program in family medicine for 15 days in the 5th year. Following this there is 3 years of post-graduate training required (WHO, 2012).

Only one university, the Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine offers training for family physicians (Brekke et al., 2013).

practice

The role and number of family physicians in Moldova has not yet been identified, but the general physician to population ratio is approximately 56 per 100 000 people, with one family physicians seeing on average 1800 patients (WHO, 2012).

The primary care model used is unknown, but the gatekeeping method is used (WHO, 2012).