[We need a renaissance of the community physician]

The author submits views of officials of the department of general medicine and the Society for General Medicine and of a selected representative group of other doctors of the department on the present situation in general medicine. Suggestions for creating prerequisite conditions for the development of the discipline under conditions of reconstruction of our society comprise the establishment of chairs of general medicine at medical faculties, adherence to principles of training of general practitioners after completion of medical studies till they obtain the qualification, of general practitioners, training in the branch to obtain the basic qualification, increasing the number of staff in the department, adherence to the principle of availability of health care, respecting of actual conditions, material equipment and provision of apparatuses in work places, problems of improving health care and assessment of work capacity, prevention and dispensarization, comprehensive therapy and free choice of doctors and renumeration of the work of doctors.