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Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med
; 15(1): e1-e4, 2023 Dec 04.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38044889
RESUMO
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.