Postgraduate training for family medicine in a rural district hospital in South Africa: Appropriateness and sufficiency of theatre procedures as a sentinel indicator
Background: Since 2007, the postgraduate training of family physicians for South African district hospitals has been formalised. This training differs from European and North American programmes as up to 30% of the skills needed rely on district hospital surgical, obstetrics and anaesthetics procedu...
Main Authors: | Dawie Du Plessis, Paul Alfred Kapp, Louis S. Jenkins, Laurel Giddy |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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AOSIS
2016-06-01
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Series: | African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine |
Online Access: | https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/1106 |
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