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Eric L Aghan1, Henry Ziegler, Donatus R Mutasingwa
1Family Medicine Centre for Research and Development, Socio-Economic and Education Transformation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Lead Family Medicine Development (informal), Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam. eric.aghankiko@gmail.com.
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.
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