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Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians.

  • Eyal N Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Cancedda C Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Kyamanywa P School of Medicine, University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda.
  • Hurst SA Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland.
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  • 2016-03-02
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  • International journal of health policy and management. - 2015
Developing Countries
Emigration and Immigration
Human Resources for Health
Physician Assistants
Professional Delegation
Rural Health Services
Africa South of the Sahara
Delivery of Health Care
Health Personnel
Humans
Physician's Role
Physicians
Workforce
English Responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training of non-physician clinicians (NPCs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to NPCs as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery. This development should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking about the role of physicians and with innovations in physician education and in-service training. In important ways, a growing number of NPCs only renders physicians more necessary - for example, as specialized healthcare providers and as leaders, managers, mentors, and public health administrators. Physicians in sub-Saharan Africa ought to be trained in all of these capacities. This evolution in the role of physicians may also help address known challenges to the successful integration of NPCs in the health system.
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