Abstract

AGHAN, Eric L. et al. Advancing primary care: Establishing family medicine specialty in Tanzania. Afr. j. prim. health care fam. med. (Online) [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.1, pp.1-4. ISSN 2071-2936.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v15i1.4248.

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.

Keywords : family medicine; family physician; primary health care; Tanzania; training.

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