Gunta Tīcmane

Work experience

Education and training

Achievements

Continuing education a.o. qualification upgrade

Conferences:

WONCA Europe Conference 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark. 15 – 18 June, 2016

EGPRN meeting. Tel Aviv (Jaffa) – Israel. 20th – 24th May, 2016

Theme: "Research on Overdiagnose and Overtreatment in Family Medicine and Primary Care."

Training thematic cycle "Teaching intercultural environment.", RSU, October 8 – 29, 2015

20th WONCA Europe Conference: „Future of Family Medicine…Being Young, Staying Young…", Istanbul, Turkey, October 22 – 25, 2015

13th WONCA World Rural Health Conference 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 15 – 18, 2015

Conference of Baltic Family Doctors, September 10 – 11, 2015

Oral Presentation: „Transition to adulthood in Primary Health Care for Adolescents with Chronic Conditions"

Riga Stradins University, Scientific Conference, March 26 – 27, 2015.

Scientific research work: „Results of the study QUALICOPC Latvia: Accessibility of Primary Health Care and quality indicators of Family Doctors practices in Latvia."

Riga Stradins University, Scientific Conference, March 26 – 27, 2015.

Scientific research work: „Role of family doctor in Choice of Contraceptives, Consulting Women of Reproductive Age."

Riga Stradins University Student International Conference „Health and Social Sciences" 2015. March 25, 2015.

Scientific research work: „Contraceptive Choice and Mechanism of Awareness among Young people"

5th EURIPA Invitational Health Forum: „Rural Medicine: today and tomorrow", Riga, September 26 – 28. Chair of the Forum.

19th WONCA Europe Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2 – 5, 2014

EGPRN Conference: „Preventive activities in Primary Care, an approach from clinical and health services research"., Barcelona, Spain, May 8 – 11, 2014.

Oral presentation: An investigation of patient's motivation in preventive activities from a Family physician's resident's and medical student's perspective in Latvia."

EGPRN/EURIPA Conference, Malta, October, 17 – 19, 2013

WONCA World Conference 2013, Prague, June, 25 – 29, 2013

European Forum for Primary Care. „Crossing Borders in Primary Care". Conference in Goteborg , September 3. – 4, 2013.

Poster presentation: Evaluation of quality indicators of general practitioners' (GPs') work in Latvia.

18th WONCA Europe Conference Vienna - Austria, July 4-7, 2012

Oral presentation: "How could we increase young GP's to work and remain in rural areas"

EGPRN konference: „Quality Improvement in the Care of Chronic Disease in Family practice: the contribution of education and research", Ljubjana, Slovenia, May 10 – 13., 2012

LINNEAUS Euro-PC Conference – 17 and 18 April, 2012, Lodz, Poland

17th WONCA Europe Conference, September 8 – 11, 2011, Warsaw, Poland

Participation in medical standards and guidelines for the development of "Standard - the educational program graduates the knowledge, skills and competences description of the family doctor to obtain the basic specialty (EQF level 7), 2011​

Field of research

• Cardiovascular disease risk factors and their detection and possible prevention
• Arterial hypertension
• Basic principles of the Family Medicine
• Research in Family Medicine
• Improving the quality of family medicine

Lectured study course

Basics of Family Medicine

Special Issues of Family Medicine

Projects

National coordinator of the project in primary health care - QUALICOPC (Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe). Contract No. INT040-NC13, concluded in March 2012. The project carried out in cooperation with Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands).​

Memberships

Latvian Doctors Union: member of ​Certification committee, since November 2006;

member of committee – licence to teach, since November 2006 - November

2010

Latvian Family Physicians association: member of Ethics committee April 2002 - April 2010; member of Certification committee since 2013

Latvian Rural Family doctors association, member of the board since 2001.

EURIPA (European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association) - member of the board since​ 2007.

EGPRN (European General Practice Research Network) National Representative since 2008.

Publications

Research articles​​

Sports un stājas traucējumi / S.Gintere, G.Tīcmane, M.Avota, A.Krūmiņa ...[u.c.] // Latvijas Ārsts. - Nr.10 (2014, okt.), 28.-36.lpp.

Tīcmane, Gunta. Euripa: The European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association Euripa 5th Rural Health Forum. Riga, Latvia, 26-28 September 2014. Rural Family Medicine-today and tomorrow / G.Ticmane // European Journal of General Practice. - Vol.20, No.1 (2014, March), p.81-82. - Starptautiski citējamā izdevumā.

Tīcmane, Gunta. Kā izmantot vadlīnijas : par vadlīnijām ģimenes ārstiem - Kardiovaskulāro slimību riska faktoru identifikācija ģimenes ārsta praksē / G.Tīcmane // Medicus Bonus. - Nr.9 (2012, nov./dec.), 19.-20., [22.]lpp.

Abstracts​​

Ģimenes (vispārējās prakses) ārstu sadarbība ar citiem speciālistiem pacientu vērtējumā: “QUALICOPC Latvija” pētījuma rezultāti / G.Tīcmane, S.Gintere, L.Kozlovska, A.Krūmiņa // 2016.gada Zinātniskās konferences tēzes (Rīga, 2016.g. 17.-18.martā) / Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. - Rīga, 2016. - 30.lpp.

Leadership, research and the future of family doctors / S.Gintere, L.Kozlovska, G.Tīcmane, M.Kozlovska // 13th Wonca World Rural Health Conference (Dubrovnik, Croatia, Apr.15-18, 2015) : Abstract Book. - Dubrovnik, 2015. - Abstr. No.1274

Primārās veselības aprūpes kvalitāte un pieejamības rādītāji ģimenes ārstu praksēs Latvijā : QUALICOPC Latvija pētījuma rezultāti / G.Tīcmane, S.Gintere, L.Kozlovska, A.Krūmiņa // 2015.gada Zinātniskās konferences tēzes (Rīga, 2015.g. 26.-27.martā) / Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. - Rīga, 2015. - 398.lpp.

Role of family physician in choice of contraceptives, consulting women of reproductive age / E.Soerfjordmo, L.Kozlovska, S.Gintere, G.Ticmane // 2015.gada Zinātniskās konferences tēzes (Rīga, 2015.g. 26.-27.martā) / Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. - Rīga, 2015. - 38.lpp.

Dislipidēmijas analīze un ārstēšana ģimenes ārsta praksē [Elektroniskais resurss] : tēzes / M.Liepiņš, S.Gintere, A.Krūmiņa, L.Kozlovska, G.Ticmane // Latvijas Ārstu kongress (Rīga, 2013.g. 19.-21.sept.) / Latvijas Ārstu biedrība [Elektroniskais resurss]. - Rīga, 2013. - 1 p. - Resurss aprakstīts 2013.g. 9.okt. - Pieejas veids: Tīmeklis WWW.URL: http://www.arstukongress.lv/?&s=1361881321&fu=read&id=19

Investigation of clinical and immunologic data of the Lyme borreliosis patients in the period of 2009-2010 in Latvia - out-patient clinic data / S.Gintere, G.Ticmane, L.Mekša, M.Zālīte, A.Krūmiņa, L.Vīksna // 8th Baltic Conference of Family Medicine "The role of family medicine in a rapidly changing world" (Riga, Latvia, Oct.6-8, 2011) : Abstracts. - Riga, 2011. - P.21.