SLOVENE FAMILY MEDICINE SOCIETY - SLOVENIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY PRACTICE, UNIVERSITY LJUBLJANA
INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA
INSTITUTE OF FAMILY MEDICINE

1st ANNUAL MEETING OF GP/FM TEACHERS IN EUROPE

Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, September 10–11, 2004
http://www.drmed.org

Call for abstracts and registration form

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference is aiming at the educators in primary care who are involved in teaching at university or practice level and will be held in English. The main aim is to exchange the experiences and to propose effective strategies, models, curricula and methods of teaching GP/FM at undergraduate and postgraduate level. During the conference there will be a mixture of invited lectures, presentations, panel discussions, poster presentations and group work. The modules produced during the 13^th international course will be presented to the conference audience.

Programme committee
Janko Kersnik (Slovenia)
Igor Švab (Slovenia)
Yonah Yaphe (Israel)
Manfred Maier (Austria)
Jaime Correia de Sousa (Portugal)
Amanda Howe (Great Britain)
Gianluigi Passerini (Italy)

Social programme
Nena Kopčavar-Guček

Local support
Polde Zonik

PATRONAGE
The conference is organised by Slovene Family Medicine Society and under the patronage of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice (EURACT) and with the support of the EURACT service function task force. EURACT council members also serve as additional resource persons.

GENERAL INFORMATION
The conference will be held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Kranjska Gora is a tourist resort in the Northwest of Slovenia and is easily accessible by car, train or plane. The conference fee is 100 EURO. We have chosen an array of interesting keynotes and have invited distinguished speakers to cover the issues. We invite you to send an abstract for the parallel presentation or for the workshop. Three workshops will be covered by the products of the course on teaching patient centred care.

To learn more about meeting place visit http://www.kranjska-gora.si/index.php?l=3 and about the venue hotel Larix visit http://www.htp- gorenjka.si/an_gorenjka.html. We suggest an early room booking through the main registration office by letting them know you are participating the conference and/or the course: Hotel Larix, Borovska cesta 99, 4280 Kranjska Gora, Tel.: +386 4 5884 100, Fax: +386 4 588 44 70, E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We will help you to get the most convenient transfer from the airport Ljubljana (45 minutes by taxi: http://www.lju-airport.si/eng/flight.asp?mode=d&IDm=210) or any other neighbouring airports (Klagenfurt (60 minutes by taxi: http://www.klagenfurt-airport.at/index_de.html#), Triest (2 hours), Venice (2,5 hours), Graz (2 hours), Salzburg (2 hours).

Detailed programme will be available on Slovene Family Medicine Society webpage www.drmed.org or www.drmed-mb.org and www.euract.org.

ABSTRACTS
Presentations and workshops on the topic of the conference are welcomed. Abstracts for the presentations and workshops not exceeding 250 words should be send in word format by e-mail to the programme committee by the June 20. The address is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The programme committee will decide on the acceptance of the proposed abstracts and will decide the format of the presentation. The presenting author will be notified on the decision by the end of July. The decision of the committee is final. The abstracts will be published on the webpage www.drmed-mb.org.

The interested participants should send their preliminary applications until June 20 to the following address:
Janko Kersnik
Koroska 2
4280 Kranjska Gora
Slovenia
e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
tel.: +386-4-588-46-01
fax.:+386-4-588-46-10
www.drmed.org, www.drmed-mb.org

or

Prof. Igor Švab
Department of Family Medicine
Poljanski nasip 58
P.O. Box: 2218
1000 Ljubljana        
Slovenia
tel.: +386-1-438-69-15
fax.:+386-1-438-69-10
e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Preliminary registration form
Name: ................................
Address: .............................

I am interested in the participation/I will partiipate to the conference and I would like to receive further information on the detailed programme to the above address.