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.
Publication (Name of Journal)
http://www.phcfm.org Open AccessAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
DOI
10.4102/phcfm.v15i1.4248
Recommended Citation
Aghan, E. L.,
Ziegler, H.,
Mutasingwa, D. R.,
Massawe, E. R.,
Wangwe, P. J.,
Lyakurwa, D.,
Abeid, M.,
Ratansi, R.,
Kassam, N.,
Johnston, E.
(2023). Advancing primary care: Establishing family medicine specialty in Tanzania. http://www.phcfm.org Open AccessAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 15(1), 2071-2928.
Available at:
https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_fam_med/64
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Comments
This work was published after the author joined Aga Khan University.