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ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2025

Thirty-five years of family medicine training and development in Uganda.

Innocent K Besigye, Brenda Tusubira, Michael Mulowooza, Fred Ndoboli

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Article in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Models of global primary care post-2030.The Lancet. Primary care · 2025
    Review
  2. Investment in family medicine to improve health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Innocent K BesigyeDepartment of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala. innocent.besigye@mak.ac.ug.
Brenda Tusubira
Michael Mulowooza
Fred Ndoboli

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Uganda, family medicine training was started in 1989 to train an all-round generalist able to provide comprehensive care at a district hospital. Since then, the training programme has undergone several changes to cater for the needs of communities in a changing world. Very low numbers of applicants and poor understanding of the discipline have been a persistent challenge. Availability of non-family physician champions, family physician role models and collaborative networks are key to development of family medicine.

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Family PracticeHistory, 20th CenturyHumansUgandafamily medicinefamily physiciansmedical educationprimary caretraining

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PMID40459102
PMCPMC12135734

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