Dear readers,

By launching this scientific journal, we aimed to bring the latest scientific knowledge about medical and public health issues closer to healthcare professionals in practice, provide insights into the views of leading medical authorities, and inform them about recommendations and guidelines for solving these issues provided by the most significant organizations and institutions on evidence-based recommendations and guidelines to address these challenges effectively. We engaged leading medical experts to provide a perspective on needs through their own experiences and/or research, offering guidance on what should be done in existing circumstances to increase the efficiency of protection and improve the quality of life for patients. Based on published texts, we have prepared a large number of electronic tests for the continuous medical education of all those who require this knowledge. Thus, through the symbiosis of a scientific journal and the virtual education platform “Academy“ in the era of the digital revolution, a new quality has emerged, of which we are very proud.

Over the past two years of work, we:

We have also conducted accreditation of electronic tests prepared by the authors of the works we have published from the inception of the journal up to the present day. By the accreditation decision of the Health Council of Serbia and the Montenegrin Medical Chamber, each test has been assigned a specific number of points that you can use for the renewal of your license. In Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, it will be necessary for you to verify the certificates you receive by completing the tests with the relevant chambers, following the prescribed procedures of the health authorities of these countries, to recognize certificates which are acquired by attending accredited continuing education programs outside the home country.

– have engaged over 400 leading experts in Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and other countries in the region and Europe to write articles or participate in their scientific evaluation before publication,
– have encouraged a large number of doctoral candidates to publish the results of their research in our journal,
– have published 98 papers that have undergone a “double-blind“ review and plagiarism check,
– have released 8 issues of the journal, comprising over 1,000 pages of high-quality scientific content,
– have published the journal with a circulation of 52,000 copies in the languages of the countries in the region (Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Montenegrin) as well as in English,
– have distributed the journal to 8,000 doctors working in the countries of the region,
– have prepared an electronic edition of the journal, which has been followed by more than 14,000 healthcare professionals from 29 countries around the world,
– have prepared, accredited, and uploaded onto the ‘Academy’ virtual education platform 87 programs of continuous medical education, comprising electronic tests derived from the articles published in the journal,
– have enabled the use of tests by more than 11,000 doctors and other healthcare professionals, allowing them to accumulate nearly 37,000 credit points for license renewal.

The interaction with the healthcare profession during the two years of work convinces me that our efforts have been beneficial.

I would like to thank everyone who contributed to it, especially the pharmaceutical company Galenika, without whose financial support the achievement of the described results would not have been possible.

I wish you a Happy New Year 2024!

Prof. Dragoljub Đokić, M.D, Ph.D, D.P.H 
Chief Editor of Galenika Medical Journal
Founder of the Academy for Continuing Medical Education

THE WORD OF THE SPONSOR

Dear colleagues,

GALENIKA, one of the strongest brands that has worthily represented the pharmaceutical industry of the Republic of Serbia for decades, is taking a step further, with a great desire to help developing a strong professional opinion within the healthcare of the patients.

We are aware that stormy times bring great challenges, especially for those who bravely stand on the front lines of the joint struggle and for that reason, we decided to support the creation of a new scientific journal as a general sponsor, intended to you, who selflessly invest effort and knowledge in preserving the health of our population every day.

We firmly believe in the idea that professionalism has no alternative and that only by relying on evidence-based medicine can be victory over every existing and future health challenge.As a company, that for decades has a recognizable and inseparable role at the daily level of your professional practice, together, we can resist every disease or condition of our patients, without asking about hours, days, weeks and years of dedication, but focused on striving for the health benefits of each individual.

Today, we want to help more than ever, we want to make reference medical data available to every healthcare worker in our country, on their native language.We decided to succeed on that path,regardless about the level of effort we will put into this mission.

Thanks to the courage and professional capacity of the Academy for Continuing Medical Education, the GALENIKA MEDICAL JOURNAL is born. The scientific newsletter of the Academy for Continuing Medical Education.We strongly believe that this unique professional literature will be a useful support for your further professional development.

This is our way of saying

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.

Your Galenika

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