Making family medicine work: Rural community-based and interprofessional medical education
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Making family medicine work: Rural community-based and interprofessional medical education | |
| Creator | Hagemeister, Dirk T. | |
| Description | At the University of the Free State, the 5-year MBChB curriculum had to be complemented with community-based education exposure to meet the requirements of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Following the faculty leadership’s vision, an interprofessional training experience was conceptualised and implemented by a project team from the three schools in the Faculty of Health Sciences (Medicine, Nursing, and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences). For the past decade, 4th-year medical students participated in the 2-week rotation in the rural southern Free State province, of which 1 week is spent with students from other health professions programmes in a structured interprofessional learning experience. The other week focuses on the realities of nurse-driven primary healthcare services in a resource-deprived area, including exposure to the programme-guided care for patients with tuberculosis (TB) or chronic diseases, care for pregnant women and for babies, including vaccinations. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2024-07-29 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4583 | |
| Source | African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 16, No 1 (2024); 3 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928 | |
| Language | eng | |
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