Add to ORKGResponding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician 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 cha...
Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discu...
As Eyal et al put forth in their piece, Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolv...
Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discu...
Responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training o...
The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Sahara...
Many countries have health-care providers who are not trained as physicians but who take on many of ...
The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Sahara...
Health workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, ...
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the...
Health workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, ...
A decade ago, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by on...
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the...
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the...
In today's Lancet, the results from Fitzhugh Mullan and Seble Frehywot are a commendable effort to d...
The editorial “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians” b...
Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discu...
As Eyal et al put forth in their piece, Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolv...
Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discu...
Responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training o...
The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Sahara...
Many countries have health-care providers who are not trained as physicians but who take on many of ...
The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Sahara...
Health workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, ...
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the...
Health workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, ...
A decade ago, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by on...
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the...
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the...
In today's Lancet, the results from Fitzhugh Mullan and Seble Frehywot are a commendable effort to d...
The editorial “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians” b...
Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discu...
As Eyal et al put forth in their piece, Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolv...
Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discu...