ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2017
A New Generation of Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa? Comment on "Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians".
Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Supervision as a tool for building surgical capacity of district hospitals: the case of Zambia.Human resources for health · 2020Article
- Coordinating Between Medical Professions' Tasks to Optimize Sub-Saharan Health Systems: A Response to Recent Commentaries.International journal of health policy and management · 2017Article
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This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (NPCs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. We generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formally their scope of practice as prerequisites to identifying the new competencies which physicians need to acquire. We add one new competencies domain, the utilization of new communication technologies, to those listed in the editorial. Finally, we identify policy issues which decision-makers will need to address to make medical education reform work.
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