Dear colleagues and friends,
It is my great pleasure and even greater honor to address you with this editorial and present the final
issue of the Serbian Journal of the Medical Chamber for the year 2024.
Our Journal has been in publication for four years, during which time we have faced various challenges.
Sometimes these challenges were very complex and difficult and additionally complicated by unique social
and health conditions in Serbia and the world. We have successfully overcome them becoming even stron-
ger and prouder.
Namely, we concluded the year 2023 with an achievement in categorization as a national scientific jour-
nal categorized for the first time, while we leave the year 2024 and welcome the New Year 2025 as a national
journal with an M53 categorization.
We are proud of our joint effort and the fact that each new issue of the Journal surpasses the previous
one in terms of quality, content and form. We believe that we will continue to follow this trend in the next
year, and together we will succeed on our path of developing the Journal and its professional and scientific
validity.
Just like previous issues, this issue of the Journal also presents engaging topics that will undoubtedly be
of great use to us in our future everyday work.
Teamwork is an important instrument of organizational development and quality management in vari-
ous medical disciplines, especially when it comes to the treatment or rehabilitation of patients with complex
and difficult conditions. It is very important to determine the level of satisfaction within the team, as well as
the factors that contribute to building teamwork and team performance, in terms of greater effectiveness
and lesser absence from work (absenteeism). The original article written by Dr. Danijela Baščarević et al.
provides us with an insight into the results of a survey conducted at the Special Hospital for Cerebral Palsy
and Developmental Neurology in Belgrade. With the use of a questionnaire, the characteristics of the teams
related to the average number of team members, gender structure, length of service and 11 dimensions of
teamwork (purpose, satisfaction, interactions, training, communication, processes, etc.) as well as the per-
formance of multidisciplinary teams, were examined. Performance indicators, such as effectiveness (number
of patients per team) and absenteeism (number of days of absence from work), were taken from the annual
operation report for 2020.
In their original article, Dr. Lidija Šćepanović and Zoran Vujošević present the provision and dynamics of
the number of nurses/technicians and their structure, in Montenegro, over a period of ten years (2014–2023),
as well as positive changes in the equity of the distribution of nurses/technicians in relation to the number
of inhabitants across municipalities, as compared to the previous period.
The original article written by Dr. Lejla Imamović Lerić and Dr. Indira Husić deals with a very current topic,
given that social media networks are present in the daily life of almost every individual today. The authors
demonstrated a significant association between narcissistic personality disorder and social media presence.
Oral health is a segment of general human health that contributes to overall physical, mental and social
well-being, enabling people to eat, communicate and participate in social life without discomfort, inconve-
nience or stress. The original article “Availability of preventive dental services to preschool and school chil-
dren within the public health sector in the Canton of Sarajevo”, written by Dr. Amela Brčkalija et al., shows
that quality and safe preventive dental care is ensured for preschool and school children in the public health
sector.
Dr. Dejan Munjiza et al., in their original scientific article “The left ventricular ejection fraction and the left
atrial anteroposterior diameter as predictors of acute ischemic stroke outcome”, proved the hypothesis that
the enlargement of the left atrium, expressed by the increase in the anteroposterior diameter and the de-
crease in the systolic function of the left ventricle, as observed by the value of the ejection fraction, predict
a bad outcome in these patients.
Metacognition, the ability to reflect and regulate one's own cognitive processes, plays a key role in med-
ical education by improving critical thinking, improving clinical judgment, reducing diagnostic errors, and
encouraging reflective practice. Assessment of metacognitive awareness is essential for university students,
as it affects their ability to manage learning and achieve academic success. Dr. Zoran Bukumirić et al. present
the results of a study that aimed to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Serbian version of the
Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI), focusing on its construct validity and internal consistency, they
provide evidence of the appropriate metric characteristics of the Serbian version of the MAI questionnaire.
As always, in this issue we also present several interesting and very instructive case reports.
Dr. Dolika Vasović et al. present the case of a 57-year-old female patient who developed ocular side ef-
fects eight months after starting treatment with MEK/BRAF inhibitors, thus emphasizing the need for early
identification and treatment of ocular side effects.
Next, Dr. Luka Pejnović et al. present the case of a patient with penoscrotal Paget's disease, which is very
rare worldwide and for most doctors it represents a big dilemma in both diagnosis and treatment. Preopera-
tive diagnosis and proper surgical treatment are the adequate method for avoiding recurrence and repeated
surgical procedures, which is certainly a key factor in survival.
Finally, Dr. Sveto Pantović et al. discuss the recommendations available today for the treatment of vag-
inal eversion and present the case of a patient who underwent surgical treatment of vaginal eversion after
hysterectomy, which includes anterior colpoplasty in combination with bilateral fixation of the sacrospinal
ligament. This type of treatment is advised in the advanced stage of complex vaginal eversions. The surgical
technique applied to the patient is an effective and safe method of treatment. This experience is very im-
portant for many of our colleagues when treating patients with this condition.
It remains for me to wish you a happy and successful New Year 2025, both on a personal and professional
level, with the hope of achieving even greater and better results together.
Sincerely
