• Staff
  
  Head: Milica Katic, PhD, Professor
  
  
  • Antun Budak, MD, PhD, Professor, e-mail: abudak@snz.hr
  • Milica Katic, MD, PhD, Professor, e-mail: mkatic@snz.hr
  • Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, e-mail: mvrcic@snz.hr
  • Sanja Blazekovic-Milakovic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, e-mail: sblazeko@snz.hr
  • Hrvoje Tiljak, MD, PhD, Senior Lecturer, e-mail: htiljak@snz.hr
  • Biserka Bergman-Markovic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, e-mail: bmarkovic@snz.hr
  • Djurdjica Lazic, MD, Junior Lecturer, e-mail: djlazic@snz.hr
  • Venija Cerovecki-Nekic, MD, Junior Lecturer, e-mail: vcerovecki@snz.hr
  • Andreja Babic-Banaszak, MD, Junior Lecturer, e-mail: abana@snz.hr
  • Marica Bozuric, Secretary, e-mail: mbozuric@snz.hr
  • + 40 General Practitioners running student practicals
  
  
• Education
  
  • undergraduate education: 105 hours of compulsory course in General/Family Medicine (final year of undergraduate studies), 16 hours of lectures, 32 hours of seminars, and 57 hours of practicals in GP setting); two 30-hour electives in preclinical undergraduate studies: The Characteristics of Primary Care Physician, and Communication Skills Training.
    
  • postgraduate education: postgraduate course for General Practitioners/Family Physicians, as a part of Vocational Training (2 terms - 780 hours); participation in the postgraduate education and vocational training for School Health, Public Health and Geriatrics.
    
  • continuing medical education
    • International courses:
      • International Course for Teachers in General Practice (since 1983),
      • International School of Balint Method (since 1994);
    • National courses for General Practitioners/Family Physicians:
      • The Family and Health,
      • The Communication in General/Family Practice,
      • Human Sexuality,
      • Quality Assurance for General Practice/Family Medicine;
      • various seminars, workshops, lectures, etc.
  
  
• Research
  
  • Involvment in actual international projects:
    • Home Visiting in General Practice in Europe (collaboration to EGPRW),
    • Euro-sentinel Practice Project (collaboration to NIVEL Institute from Utrecht, the Netherlands),
    • Healthy Ageing (collaboration to NHC from Groningen, the Netherlands),
    • Health Care Reform management in General Practice (EURO-Health);
  • several national projects: GPs' Clinical judgement, Free Choice of GPs, Health and Health Care in the Transitional Period, Evaluation of outcome of drug addiction treatment in GP, Acute respiratory Infections in GP, Application of International Classification of Primary Health Care
  • and numerous various minor projects and researches
  
  
• Other activities
  
  • International organizations membership:
    • World Association of General Practitioners (WONCA), (laison person Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic),
    • European Academy of General Practice (EURACT), (laison person Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic),
    • European General Practice Research Workshop (EGPRW), (laison person Milica Katic),
    • European Working Party on Quality in family Practice (EQUIP), (laison person Hrvoje Tiljak),
    • Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), (laison person Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic),
    • World Balint Federation, (laison person Sanja Blazekovic-Milakovic);
    
    
  • National organizations membership:
    • Croatian Medical Association,
    • Croatian Association of Family Physicians, (laison person Antun Budak),
    • Croatian Association of Medical Teachers (laison person Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic),
    • Croatian Family Medicine Reasearch Club, (laison person Milica Katic),
    • Association of Family Medicine Teachers, (laison person Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic);
  • The Division is a part of the WHO Collaborating Center for Primary Health Care, and its members are WHO temporary advisors in the field of General/Family Practice;
  • The Division is participating in editing and publishing scientific medical journal "Medicina Familiaris Croatica";
  • The Division isactively participating in organization of regular yearly national professional meetings "Croatian Days of Primary Health Care" and "Family Medicine Symposium".