Table 1.

Free-response questionnaire questions. Investigators developed and administered to participants a Serbian-language questionnaire containing the following open-ended questions.

Free-response questionnaire questions
• What functions best in emergency medicine in your country and why?
• How is the status of physicians in emergency medicine in comparison to that of physicians in other specialties?
• With regard to education and training, what are the obstacles to becoming a physician in the field of emergency medicine?
• What are the current problems in the system of emergency medicine? And what is being done to solve these problems?
• What are the priorities for improving the system of emergency medicine?
• What are the barriers to the future development of the system of emergency medicine?
• What types of training should be offered for the improvement of the system of emergency medicine?
• What are the strong and weak points of the training of physicians in the system of emergency medicine?
• What do you think would be the reaction of the health care community (physicians, nurses, administrators) to development of the system of emergency medicine?
• What do you think would be the response of the public and government to development of the system of emergency medicine?