Le prospettive della medicina accademica europea

Family medicine in Europe is gradually building up and strengthening its new identity as an academic discipline through the development of teaching and research.
The process was established with high standards by Northern European countries. It is gradually spreading to more and more countries, although there are considerable differences between nations. At the next meeting of the Council of the European Academy of Teachers in GP (EURACT) there will be 34 participants in the academy. In Italy there have been considerable, increasing developments towards compliance with the main objectives of European academic medicine. This is demonstrated by the establishment of the first pre-university courses; the marked increase in traineeships almost everywhere in the country, and the fact that the European documents have been brought into political circles and to educational policymakers as a matter for discussion.