Conference report: Undergraduate family medicine and primary care training in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections of the PRIMAFAMED network

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Conference report: Undergraduate family medicine and primary care training in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections of the PRIMAFAMED network
 
Creator Besigye, Innocent Mash, Robert Essuman, Akye Flinkenflögel, Maaike
 
Subject Family Medicine primary care; primary care physicians; undergraduate medical education; community based education;
Description Internationally, there is a move towards strengthening primary healthcare systems and encouraging community-based and socially responsible education. The development of doctors with an interest in primary healthcare and family medicine in the African region should begin during undergraduate training. Over the last few years, attention has been given to the development of postgraduate training in family medicine in the African region, but little attention has been given to undergraduate training. This article reports on the 8th PRIMAFAMED (Primary Care and Family Medicine Education) network meeting held in Nairobi from 21 to 24 May 2016. At this meeting the delegates spent time presenting and discussing the current state of undergraduate training at 18 universities in the region and shared lessons on how to successfully implement undergraduate training. This article reports on the rationale for, information presented, process followed and conclusions reached at the conference.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor EU
Date 2017-01-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v9i1.1351
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 9, No 1 (2017); 5 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Innocent Besigye, Robert Mash, Akye Essuman, Maaike Flinkenflögel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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