Development of a portfolio of learning for postgraduate family medicine training in South Africa: a Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Within the 52 health districts in South Africa, the family physician is seen as the clinical leader within a multi-professional district health team. Family physicians must be competent to meet 90% of the health needs of the communities in their districts. The eight university departments of Family Medicine have identified five unit standards, broken down into 85 training outcomes, for postgraduate training. The family medicine registrar must prove at the end of training that all the required training outcomes have been attained. District health managers must be assured that the family physician is competent to deliver the expected service. The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) require a portfolio to be submitted as part of the uniform assessment of all registr

SUBMITTER: Jenkins L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3317832 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature