Advancing primary care: Establishing family medicine specialty in Tanzania

Document Type

Article

Department

Family Medicine (East Africa)

Abstract

Family medicine has existed as a training pathway through a private university in Tanzania since 2004. As global calls have increased to embrace primary health care as a pathway to ensuring universal health coverage, so has Tanzania recently turned to explore family medicine as a specialty to improve access to comprehensive, high-quality healthcare for her entire population. This article outlines ongoing efforts to define competencies and skills of a family medicine physician in Tanzania, engage government support and open the first public university training programme for family medicine postgraduate education.

Comments

This work was published after the author joined Aga Khan University.

Publication (Name of Journal)

http://www.phcfm.org Open AccessAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

DOI

10.4102/phcfm.v15i1.4248

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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