Family medicine internship support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa – A narrative report

Authors :: Kamaludin Ashtiker
Daniel Tadmor
Raeesah Fakier
Ayesha Allie
Mosedi Namane
Junaid Omar
Gaironesa Solomon
Colyn Le Roux
Source :: African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp e1-e3 (2020), African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-3, Published: 2020
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: AOSIS, 2020.
Abstract: The health-service redesign that came with the preparation for the surge of COVID-19 had a potential of disrupting the Family Medicine internship programme like it did to many other health and academic programmes. A team of Cape-Town based Community Health Centre (CHC) doctors mitigated this challenge by designing an innovative tool that facilitated ongoing supervision of the interns in order to achieve the outcomes of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).

Subjects :: Counseling
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Health Personnel
Pneumonia, Viral
education
Short Report
lcsh:Medicine
supervision
Betacoronavirus
South Africa
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physicians
Cape
Internship
Pandemic
Humans
Medicine
Narrative
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
health care economics and organizations
cape town
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
pandemic
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
lcsh:R
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Internship and Residency
lcsh:RA1-1270
Community Health Centers
General Medicine
medical-interns
Health professions
covid-19
Family medicine
Preceptorship
Community health
Cape Town
Coronavirus Infections
0305 other medical science
Family Practice
business

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