Developing Family Medicine in Tanzania
Currently Aga Khan University has the only Family Medicine residency in Tanzania. The partners are working together as a Family Medicine Working Group to create a strong Tanzanian Family Medicine program to serve the countries needs. The Ministry of Education has approved Family Medicine as a specialty and in May 2020, the first national Family Medicine conference convened to identify what Family Medicine should look like in Tanzania. Family Medicine is being developed in a community oriented primary care (COPC) model. The partners have been working with Buguruni Anglican Health Centre (BAHC) and SEET to develop into a Family medicine COPC teaching hospital.