Family physician

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• Family physician
• Medical faculty Mostar

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• Self-assessment of Medical faculty has already
  been made in 2004 and supplemented in 2005.
• History of the University of Mostar
• The tradition of higher education in Mostar and
  Herzegovina exists from the end of 19th century.
  The first school of the university level dates
  from 1895. It was Franciscan theology.
• In 1979, faculties in Mostar are no longer under
  jurisdiction of the University in Sarajevo and
  Mostar becomes an independent university centre

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• History of Medical faculty
• In 1996. has been developed survey about
  justifiableness of founding of Medical faculty in
  Mostar, which has contained preliminary teaching
  plan and program...
• on 18th April 1997., in vice-chancellors office
  of University, Medical faculty has been
  established in Mostar.

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• Reasons for launching the program of Medical
  faculty
• there were no medical schools within this
  territory of the Bosnia and Herzegovina
• institutional impact of the School improved
  professional and research capacity of the health
  sector in the region
• furthermore, striving to become a school with
  well-organized forms of professional education
  and a well-established research capacity, it can
  even hope to attract graduates from other medical
  schools in the future

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• Mobility-friendly student environment
• The Mostar Medical School has calculated its
  teaching and learning output into the ECTS credit
  system, which qualifies the School for the
  mobility of students according to the
  requirements of the Bologna process.
• International exchange of students
• The Mostar Medical School has signed
  collaborative contracts with other medical
  schools in Croatia, Sarajevo, Heidelberg,
  Würzburg and Cork

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• Students surveys and activity of students at
  Faculty
• Students surveys have been introduced at Medical
  faculty in 2000.
• At the end of each semester students survey
  about class and teacher is performed, and results
  of those surveys are brought to meetings of
  Facultys council.
• Every teacher gets his own code by which he can
  read results on the web page of the Faculty about
  his department.
• Every academic year has each representative in
  Faculty council. On the conferences of Facultys
  council, students are giving their remarks about
  exams, textbooks, performance of teaching.
• Representatives of students (chosen on students
  elections) are organized into an Assembly of
  students of Medical faculty, which is branch of
  Assembly of students at University of Mostar

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• Projects at Medical faculty
• Faculty has participated in TEMPUS project
  DICTUM, and New Teaching Methodologies
  Intel-Med
• Faculty co-operates in project "Establishment of
  high-throughput monoclonal antibody production
  and hybridoma bank", (CAPRI) technological
  project about manufacturing monoclonal antibodies
• Projects from Federal Ministry...

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• Plans for the future of the Medical faculty
• Priority is education of persons who have
  finished study of medicine and sending young
  people abroad on post-graduate education and work
  in laboratories.
• Since the building of Medical faculty has been
  constructed and equipped, there is no obstacles
  that our scientific personal, with other
  teachers-scientists, easily organize scientific
  work in those laboratories
• Faculty is in course of making program and
  foundation of School of public health in Mostar.
  It would work on protection (prevention) and
  promotion of health in region of Herzegovina and
  further

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• The aim is to develop scientific laboratories,
  doctors post-graduate study and in wholeness,
  connect the work on basic sciences and clinic
  departments.

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EDUCATIONAL GOALS OF THE PROGRAMME

• Main characteristics of subjects on pre-graduate
  study
• Medical faculty organizes and deduces teaching
  for getting professional qualification doctor of
  medicine (family physician).
• Students learn basic medical sciences, clinical
  subjects
• It is predicted that the best students every
  year, in time of summer holidays, live and work
  for a month in renowned scientific laboratories,
  on faculties, clinical hospitals and other
  scientific and professional institutions out of
  Mostar.

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• Obligatory field praxis, in which students
  performing at least 120 hours of work after the
  fourth and fifth year of study in smaller
  hospitals or clinic
• Diploma exam comprises 100 hours (50 questions
  from all areas in a multiple choice format).
  Grading of the diploma exam comprises grades
  from the clinical clerkship, grades from the
  Major Elective Module and the final test grade.
• Students of the final year are writing the
  diploma thesis. Upon the received positive
  evaluation of the thesis, student presents the
  thesis in public orally and in front of the
  Diploma Thesis Evaluation Board.

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EDUCATIONAL GOALS OF THE PROGRAMME

• Main characteristics of scientific post-graduate
  study Medical care and public health
• The aim of study is to get introduced physicians
  and workers in health services about contemporary
  aspects of management and education in health
  services,
• The final goal is to teach physicians, about
  contemporary principles of organization and
  rational usage of medical care and to enable them
  for quality organization of health services and
  promoting of health, which is maybe the most
  important reason of inefficiency of health
  services in this region and further.