training

Year Established:

2006

Type of Training:

6 year program education in family medicine at Medical Faculty of the University of Montenegro.

practice

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: 16,802 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes)

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 79.6 years

• Males 2017: 74.9 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 127 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 67 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 73%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• No

training

Family medicine was established in 2006. There is 6 years of medical school required (Masic et al, 2014). Following this is 4 years of post-graduate training. There is one school (Krztoń-Królewiecka et al., 2013), the Medical Faculty of the University of Montenegro, that teaches family medicine (Brekke et al., 2013). There are 284 family doctors per capita (Eurostat, 2016).

practice

In 2003 the country's ministry of health mandated that each citizen needs to select a primary healthcare physician to become their main physician so that the gatekeeping role of family physicians be practiced in the country. Family medicine is becoming more and more recognized in the country. The first step to the implementation of family medicine was a four month course to be taken by all primary care providers and then the mandate that all citizens select a primary physician so that gatekeeping can be practiced.