Family medicine internship support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa – A narrative report
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 challen...
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doaj-66965c1543e44c86b874b459bf2ac62c2020-11-25T04:00:24ZengAOSISAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine2071-29282071-29362020-11-01121e1e310.4102/phcfm.v12i1.2661790Family medicine internship support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa – A narrative reportGaironesa Solomon0Ayesha Allie1Raeesah Fakier2Daniel Tadmor3Kamaludin Ashtiker4Colyn Le Roux5Junaid Omar6Mosedi Namane7Vanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape TownVanguard Community Health Centre, Metro Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Cape Town, South Africa; and, Division of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape TownThe 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).https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2661medical-internssupervisioncovid-19pandemiccape town |
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Family medicine internship support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa – A narrative report |
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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). |
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