[Structural basis to quality assurance in medical education]

Medical education, especially continuous one, is considered as a very important strategy in assuring health care quality. It represents the most dynamic structural element of the health care quality. In this presentation we used the structural approach to quality assurance, through examination of medical literature utilisation trends from a number of health professionals and students of biomedical schools. In the research we used questionnaires which contained the questions related to the motivation of the subjects to use the medical literature and its availability to them. 34 students of biomedical schools were interviewed through questionnaires, 45 students of high nursery school and 32 medical doctors. The results showed that motivation of the subjects in the survey, both students and medical doctors to use medical literature is significant. However the possibility to use professional literature in their libraries is very limited because of the lack of new literature. Only 3% of interviewed medical doctors and students use Internet in their education. Technological delay in the process of education in Bosnia and Herzegovina caused by the war will significantly influence the level of health care quality in our country in the next period.