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ArticleSouth African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care2021

Updated programmatic learning outcomes for the training of family physicians in South Africa.

Robert Mash, Hannes Steinberg, Mergan Naidoo

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Article in South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Clinical leadership development: Current practices and future directions for Southern African primary healthcare.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2026
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  4. Stepping up in clinical governance: The leadership challenge for new family physicians.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025
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  6. Evidence of learning in workplace-based assessments in a Family Medicine Training Programme.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2024
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  7. Cultivating leaders for primary health care: A revised approach for transformative development.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
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  8. Development of entrustable professional activities for family medicine in South Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
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  9. Myriad untold stories unfolding daily: South Africa's pursuit of quality primary health care.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2024
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  10. Workplace-based learning opportunities in a South African family medicine training programme.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2023
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  11. Developing entrustable professional activities for family medicine training in South Africa.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2023
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  13. The contribution of family physicians to district health services in South Africa: A national position paper by the South African Academy of Family Physicians.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Robert MashDivision of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; and, South African Academy of Family Physicians, Cape Town. rm@sun.ac.za.
Hannes Steinberg
Mergan Naidoo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The training of medical specialists should constantly be re-aligned to the needs of the population and the health system. The national Education and Training Committee of the South African Academy of Family Physicians reached consensus on the updated programmatic learning outcomes for the training of specialist family physicians in South Africa. Learning outcomes were first developed to guide training programmes when the speciality was recognised in 2007. Fifteen years later, it was time to revisit and revise these learning outcomes. Learning outcomes define what family physicians are able to do at the end of 4 years of postgraduate training. This revision presents five unit standards and 83 programmatic exit-level learning outcomes.

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Clinical CompetencePhysicians, FamilyConsensusHumansLearningSouth Africacompetency-based educationcurriculumeducationfamily physicianshealth professions educationlearning outcomes

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PMID34677076
PMCPMC8517791

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