Non-physician clinicians in rural Africa: lessons from the Medical Licentiate programme in Zambia
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DOI: 10.1186/s12960-017-0233-0
Abstract: BackgroundMost sub-Saharan African countries struggle to make safe surgery accessible to rural populations due to a shortage of qualified surgeons and the unlikelihood of retaining them in district hospitals. In 2002, Zambia introduced a new… read more here.
Keywords: physician clinicians; surgery; rural populations; mls ... See more keywords