E O Olapade-Olaopa, N Sewankambo, J E Iputo, P Rugarabamu, A H Amlak, M Mipando, Monekosso G L
BACKGROUND - Globally, human resources for health are being optimized to address the increasing health burden and concomitant increased demands on health professionals. These demands are even more exacting in Sub-SaharanAfrica considering the shortage of health care workers, especially physicians. The noteworthy efforts at deploying task-shifting to address this situation not-withstanding, the situation also signals the need to re-define the objectives of medical instruction to ensure effective and contemporary medical practice in a mostly physician-led health workforce across the sub-continent...
September 2016: African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences