[Special medical care in the opinion of general practitioners]

Abstract

We distributed a questionnaire among doctors participating in vocational training in Regional Family Doctors Educational Centre at Family Medicine Department in Wrocław Medical Academy and Family Medicine Department of Collegium Medicum in Jagiellonian University. It included questions concerning co-operation of general practitioners with specialist outpatient clinics and assessment of health service reform. The doctors with the first degree of specialisation in internal medicine as well as in family medicine and those training for specialisation filled in the questionnaires. The doctors work in non-public as well as public medical centres of primary care. We asked the doctors about the quality of co-operation with specialists, reservations about the co-operation and suggestions on how to improve it. The doctors also expressed their opinions on transformation in medical care, job opportunities for specialist in family medicine and suggestions for family doctors' future improvement. Our paper presents an attempt to evaluate medical care system reform and the state of co-operation of general practitioners with specialists as well as to draw conclusions regarding possibilities of improving this co-operation and raising the standard of comprehensive patient care.