How CAAP Can Help
CAAP consultants from Africa and the US will assist with site visits to facilitate program development and African regional accreditation. CAAP consultants will identify needs and assist in the development of program goals to meet those needs including resident remediation, faculty development, and resource discovery.
Program Development
While the content of internal medicine and pediatrics residency programs in African church hospitals is more parallel to western residency programs, European and American family medicine academics often ask, “what does an African family medicine residency program need to teach?” In October 2009, over 300 gathered at Rustenburg, South Africa for the second meeting of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) – Africa Region. Through an inclusive small-group process and plenary meetings a working definition of family medicine for sub-Saharan Africa was formed. This document can be found at here in the in the Journal of African Primary Care and Family Medicine.
Several organizations are assisting in African family medicine development. INFA-MED began in Kenya in the late 1990s leading to the first East African family medicine gathering in Kampala in February 2002. PRIMAFAMED has sponsored consultations and dialogue, initially in South Africa in 1997, and expanded to East and Central African countries in 2006 forming the College of Family Medicine of Eastern and Central Africa (COFaMECA).
