Primary Care Practise in Turkey and Training of Contracted Family Physicians

Turkiye’de Aile hekimligi uygulamasi Saglik Bakanligi tarafindan yenilenmistir. Yeni uygulama ilk defa 15.09.2005’de Duzce’de baslamis ve 2010 yili sonunda tum Turkiye’de yayginlasmistir. Bu sure icinde, sozlesmeli olarak aile hekimligi yapmak isteyen uzman ya da pratisyen hekimler, standardize edilmis kisa bir egitimden gecerek calismaya baslamislardir. Turkiye Halk Sagligi Kurumu (THSK), sahada calismaya devam eden aile hekimlerinin uzmanlik egitimi almalarina yonelik bir calisma yaparak, 2014 yili ilkbaharda yapilan Tipta Uzmanlik Sinavi ile ilk defa Sozlesmeli Aile Hekimligi Uzmanligi (SAHU) icin asistan almaya baslamistir. Bu makale, sozu edilen surecte ortaya cikan degisimleri tanimlamayi, gelisim surecini degerlendirmeyi ve ileriye donuk olasi problemleri gozden gecirmeyi amaclamaktadir. The official organization of family practice was renewed by Ministry of Health in Turkey and practicaly started in Duzce at 09.15 th . 2005. It become widespread across Turkey by the end of 2010. In the mean time, specialists and practitioners who wanted to work as contracted family physicians were trained by a standardized training module and started working. First in 2014, as a part of the project aiming to train contracted family physicians to grow up as specialists (SAHU), Turkish Community Health Institution (THSK) started to recruit family medicine residents by an elective examination in 2014. This article targets to define the changes appeared in the process, evaluate the progress and revise the problems that might be a concerne in the future.