Tejani, Faridah Amin;
Rashid, Mohammed Ahmed;
(2023)
Enhancing family medicine training to build capacity in Pakistan: a call for action.
Education for Primary Care
, 34
(5-6)
pp. 240-243.
10.1080/14739879.2023.2204340.
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Abstract
A high-performing, integrated, primary healthcare system is essential to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) goals and improve health indicators. There is enough evidence that healthcare is cost-effective with significantly better outcomes in countries where primary care is delivered through trained family physicians. The concept of "Family Practice approach" is relatively new in developing countries like Pakistan, where majority of basic healthcare is provided by doctors without a formal postgraduate training. The intention to adopt this approach in primary care has increased in recent years in an effort to attain UHC, yet implementation requires a paradigm shift with intervention at multiple levels. There is an opportunity to learn from better developed primary care models for example in UK and Australia to develop a pragmatic and collaborative approach to develop the specialty of family medicine in primary care. This calls for academic interventions at multiple levels, such as mandating family medicine inclusion in undergraduate medical curricula, and ensuring quality of postgraduate training by investment in developing primary care sites for training, curricula, assessment, and quality assurance structures. Encouraging medical students and general practitioners to pursue a post graduate qualification in family medicine would also require promoting family medicine as a worthwhile career and developing a higher esteem for qualified family physicians than the conventional GPs in public and private sector healthcare institutions. These interventions would help evolution of locally grounded solutions to improve the quality of primary care, hence the health outcomes of the larger population of Pakistan.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Enhancing family medicine training to build capacity in Pakistan: a call for action |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14739879.2023.2204340 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2023.2204340 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Capacity building, Family medicine, Primary care, South-Asian country |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > UCL Medical School |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10170050 |
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