Dr. Ali Abu Tahin, a teacher at the Family and Community Medicine Branch, participated in the meeting that was held in Baghdad / the Iraqi Council for Medical Specializations on Monday 18/11/2019, to discuss the progress of studying a higher professional diploma in family medicine after the first course graduation and proposals were given to develop the study in this field In the presence of both the Chairman of the Scientific Council for Family and Community Medicine, the Director General of the Planning Department at the Ministry of Health and the Director of the Department of Graduate Studies at the Ministry of Higher Education in addition to a number of professors and doctors specializing in a number of Iraqi universities and the Ministry of Health and a representative of the World Health Organization.