2004
DOI: 10.4314/nmp.v45i2.28698
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What Constitutes The Domain of Family Medicine in West Africa

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“…Interestingly, these two competencies have been defined as part of the domains of FM in Nigeria and Africa. 5,19,20 Perhaps young FPs have seen little of these in their training or practice, hence its absence from their perspective of who an FP is. Assuming these are still part of the FP's training in Nigeria, a separate residency training in community medicine/public health 21 and the increasing trend in favour of tertiary-based FM training/ practice over community-based centres may have influenced the young FPs (and perhaps the older generation of FPs as well) to relinquish this role, a view which another author seems to share.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Interestingly, these two competencies have been defined as part of the domains of FM in Nigeria and Africa. 5,19,20 Perhaps young FPs have seen little of these in their training or practice, hence its absence from their perspective of who an FP is. Assuming these are still part of the FP's training in Nigeria, a separate residency training in community medicine/public health 21 and the increasing trend in favour of tertiary-based FM training/ practice over community-based centres may have influenced the young FPs (and perhaps the older generation of FPs as well) to relinquish this role, a view which another author seems to share.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Efforts aimed at answering these questions include the use of articles, seminars, symposia, activities of Young Doctor Movements (YDMs) like AfriWon Renaissance (the World Organisation of Family Doctors [WONCA] YDM for Africa) and even special events like the World Family Doctors day. 5,6 Considering the growing number of FM training centres across Nigeria and incorporation of the subject into the undergraduate curriculum, one can say there has been an increased awareness of this unique specialty. 7 Nonetheless, these questions remain the same to date.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…As leaders of clinical governance, they led the 5 Roles and competencies expected of a family physician in South Africa [31] teams in improving quality of care and patient safety, while as champions in COPC they supported the PHC teams in engaging with local communities to improve population health [15,39,71]. In West Africa, FM roles included PHC that could be in the home or primary care facility, with a focus on family-oriented primary care as well as in secondary or tertiary care hospitals [40,72]. FPs were also placed in roles as clinical managers and medical superintendents throughout SSA, where they would manage systems, finances, schedules and patients and work as "agents of change" [6,13,43].…”
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“…There is a particular lack of information about faculty development in Sub-Saharan Africa. De Villiers and Hellenberg have described the evolution of family medicine in South Africa, including the challenges of establishing the role and value of the discipline in a low-resource country and the reorientation of Family Medicine teachers, trained in a biomedical paradigm, to a patient-centered approach [ 19 , 20 ] Furthermore, Family Medicine in Nigeria is described as encompassing family care dynamics, primary medical care, and facility-based care either in clinics or in hospitals [ 21 ]. While these papers provide descriptors of Family Medicine and the challenges to developing a clear Family Medicine identity in Africa, they do not identify faculty development competencies.…”
Section: Commentarymentioning
confidence: 99%