DEPARTMENT NAME
Centre for Family and Community Medicine

CONTACT DETAILS FOR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Prof. Maciek Godycki-Cwirko MD PhD hab. GP PHS
maciej.godycki-cwirko@umed.lodz.pl
+48 42 679 55 46, +48 42 679 55 79

Centre for Family and Community Medicine
ul. Kopcinskiego 20
90-153 Lodz, Poland

TEAM MEMBERS
Maciek Godycki-Cwirko Prof. MD PhD hab. GP PHS
Ewa Andrzejewska MSc; position: specialist for organization and administration of training and research
Anna Kowalczyk MPH; position: senior specialist for financial management of projects, researcher
Izabela Zakowska PhD; position: senior specialist for statistical data analysis

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
The Center conducts activities in research, vocational training, postgraduate teaching, teaching teachers. It has participated in EU projects on infections, antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance, patient safety and COPD. It coordinates a research network of about 50 GPs. Researchers from the Center have experience in controlled trials, qualitative and observational studies.

Keywords: family medicine, research, education, primary health care

DEPARTMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: PROJECTS AND PAPERS
Publications:
1.Beliefs on Antibiotics and Symptoms of Respiratory Tract Infections Among Rural and Urban Population in Poland: a Questionnaire Study, PlosOne 2014
2.Variation in antibiotic prescribing and its impact on recovery in patients with acute cough in primary care: prospective study in 13 countries, BMJ 2009
3.Effect of internet – based training on antibiotic prescribing rates for acute respiratory -tract infections: a multinational, cluster, randomised, factorial, controlled trial, Lancet, 2013
4.Evaluation of a tailored implementation strategy to improve the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: a study protocol of a cluster randomized trial, Trials 2014
5.A checklist for identifying determinants of practice: A systematic review and synthesis of frameworks and taxonomies of factors that prevent or enable improvements in healthcare professional practice, Implementation Science 2013

Projects:
AIDA, TICD, ALIC4E, LINNEAUS EuroPC