It’s all changed
Abstract
In conversation with colleagues at the 2012 Family Practitioners Conference, I learned that in South Africa, family medicine has been completely transformed and is now aligned with the needs of the people of sub-Saharan Africa. The family physician is now the African family physician (AFP)1 and has a job description in accordance with the primary healthcare approach. My colleagues were keen to impress on me just how different things are now: “It’s all changed,” said one. “It’s different now,” said another, referring to registrar training, while in a workshop, a third declared that “Family medicine got it wrong”. Affronted by such summary relegation to family medicine’s Jurassic Park, I looked into some of these changes.2
Published
2012-09-06
Section
Correspondence
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