training

Year family medicine was established: 2015

Type of Training: Diploma

Length of Training: 3 years

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 1.0

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: 40 beginning with the first cohort in 2015 General Practitioners trained as Family Physicians (Besrour, 2017).

practice

Physician to population ratio: 1: 6577 Inhabitants.

Role of family physician: To act as gatekeepers but this is not always implemented correctly.

Gatekeeping: Yes but not functional accordingly.

DALY: 16,684 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 77.2 years

• Males 2017: 74.9 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 74 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 63 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 99%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• Yes: "The Czech Society of General Practice”.

Training:

The ENSP has created one program in 2015 with 40 graduates as a degree designed to create recognition for a family physician in this country. Medical school lasts for 7 years. The seventh year is an internship and once "competency" has been achieved the student will defend his/or her thesis.

Practice:

Though the referral system exists in this country it faces several barriers that do prevent it from functioning properly. Patients meet their primary healthcare worker and receive a slip that refers them to a different hospital or health centre. These slips are not put on medical record and the patient is not tracked to ensure they meet the specialist and so the patient might miss their appointment and so their care is compromised.