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Bucharest University I National Centre for Studies in Family Medicine

National Centre for Studies in Family Medicine (NCSFM) was set up in 2001 at the initiative of 54 family physicians, among the founders was also the National Society of Family Medicine, national organization that represent the family physicians in Romania.
NCSFM's mission is to encourage and maintain the excellence level in practicing the family medicine as a medical specialization, thus improving the quality of education, training and specialization practice.

This nongovernmental organization proposed as objectives the followings:

  1. Development of the educational process in the family medicine specialization;
  2. Encourage and develop the research in family medicine;
  3. Draw up and implement some strategies for improving the health services in family medicine;
  4. Participate to elaboration and support for some health programs.
Out of the projects that had been carried out or are being carried out we remind the followings:

  • The network of sentinel transmission (2001-2005), whose purpose was to train a network of sentinel transmission of about 60 family physicians, who collected and provided data and information regarding the morbidity of general population who had been on their patients lists;
  • The QualiMed project (2002-2005), within whom had been elaborated five practice guidelines for family physicians, based on proves, using the international methodology of elaborating guidelines and in the same time there had been organized workshops for implementing these guidelines at the national level;
  • Medical education - permanently carried out - consisting in organizing some family medicine conferences, seminars, trainings, train the trainers' sessions.
  • Also, there had been organized a work group in order to elaborate a vocational learning curricula in family medicine;management (2005-2008), aiming to create the Romanian version of the international tool EPA (European Practice Assessment) for evaluation and improvement of the practices' quality of the family physicians;
  • The Diaz project (2005-2007), consisted in elaborating and implementing a guideline in Management Sugar Diabetes type 2, drawn up in collaboration with diabetology specialists;
  • Organization of the Health Fair (edition I-2006), event that gathered nongovernmental organizations active in the health area, family physicians and their beneficiaries, patients. The purpose was to improve and increase the accessibility of general population to these services;
  • The RO-FM project (2007-2009) meant elaborating two new practice guidelines for family physicians on Depression and Bronchitis Asthma;
  • VUniCRed project (2007-2009), regarded the improvement of the practice and theoretic training of the residents in family medicine by using some modern teaching and evaluation methods.
Within the 6th Round of Global Fund, NCSFM will elaborate in partnership with National School of Public Health and Health Services Management (NSPHHSM) and CHPS programs and activities for improving and diversify the Tuberculosis control interventions by informing and involving the community, political engagement, extension and improvement of lobby and advocacy capacity, and also by preventive activities carried out in the communities or disadvantaged groups.