CELEX: 51986PC0217
Language: en
Date: 1986-04-11
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON SPECIFIC TRAINING IN GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE

No C 125/8                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                           24. 5. 86
                                                                      II
                                                               (Preparatory Acts)
                                                        COMMISSION
                 Amended proposal for a Council Directive on specific training in general medical practice (*)
                                                              COM(86) 217 final
               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of
                                                    the EEC Treaty on 18 April 1986)
                                                                 (86/C 125/14)
               O O J N o C 13, 15. 1. 1985, p. 3.
                        INITIAL PROPOSAL                                                                 AMENDED PROPOSAL
                                                              Title unchanged
                                                            Citations unchanged
                                                     Recitals 1 and 2 u n c h a n g e d
                          Third recital                                                                    Third recital
Whereas this tendency has spread and amplified to the                         Whereas this tendency has spread and amplified to the
point where it is almost universally recognized that there                    point where it is almost universally recognized that there
is need for specific training for the general practitioner                    is need for specific training for the general medical
to enable him better to fulfil his function; whereas this                     practitioner to enable him better to fulfil his function;
function depends to a great extent on the doctor's                            whereas this function, which depends to a great extent
personal knowledge of his patients' environment, and                          on the doctor's personal knowledge of his patients'
consists of giving treatment and advice relating to the                       environment, consists of giving advice on the prevention
health of the individual taken as a whole;                                    of illness and the health protection of the individual taken
                                                                              as a whole, besides giving appropriate treatment;
                                            R e c i t a l s 4 to 10 i n c l u s i v e u n c h a n g e d
                                                            Article 1 unchanged
                         Article 2 (1) (c)                                                                Article 2 (1) (c)
 (c) it shall be practically rather than theoretically based,                  (c) it shall be practically rather than theoretically based,
     the practical instruction being given in a suitably                              the practical instruction shall be given partly in an
     equipped hospital or clinic and for at least six                                 approved hospital or clinic with the appropriate
     months in an approved general medical practice; it                               equipment and services and partly, for at least six
     shall be carried out in contact with other health                                months in an approved general medical practice or
     establishments or structures concerned with general                              an approved centre in which doctors dispense primary
     medical practice;                                                                care; it shall be carried out in contact with other
                                                                                      health establishments or structures concerned with
                                                                                      general medical practice;
                                             A r t i c l e s 3 to 11 i n c l u s i v e u n c h a n g e d