ACTA FAC MED NAISS 2009; 26 (3): 143-149

Professinal article

NEED FOR SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN HEALTH MANAGEMENT

IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

 

Roberta Marković¹, Milena Vasić², Čedomir Šagrić³, Zorana Deljanin³, Nataša Rančić¹, Stanko Marjanović¹

¹Public Health Institute Niš, Niš, Serbia

²Public Health Institute Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

³Faculty of Medicine in Niš, Niš, Serbia

SUMMARY

The aim of the paper was to do a comprehensive situation analysis and to clarify main gaps in education and training related to Health Management in Serbia and to propose possible directions for solving such situation. The study was performed in 2007 as a part of Ministry of Health/EAR CEEN/ECORIS Project “Training in Health Management”, and gathered information provided by more of 80 key professionals working in the field of Health and Education. A mixture of semi-structured interviews, focus groups, literature review and qualitative analysis were used to triangulate and come up with common conclusions. The conclusions reached by all groups of professionals are the following: there is a big gap in knowledge and skills regarding the Health Mana-gement across Serbia and a real need for such education, especially acknowledgment on application and use of managerial tools; Health Manage-ment education and trainings have been developed and implemented through formal institutions and various kinds of ad-hoc, short-term education in recent years, but there is no unified database on these educational courses ; schools of medicine in Serbia, as well as the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FOS) do have capacities to develop and implement educational programs related to management in Health; Healthcare law and University law need to be harmonized.

Key words: management, education and training