Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone

Colan Robinson

doi:10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.2051

Country Profile

Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone

Colan Robinson

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Colan Robinson, Kings Sierra Leone Partnership, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Abstract

This article is a country profile of Sierra Leone describing the state of primary health care and family medicine in early 2019. Family medicine in Sierra Leone faces many challenges but recent changes in the location of the training programme encourage optimism that it may become better established within the next few years.

Keywords

family medicine; postgraduate training; Sierra Leone

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Crossref Citations

1. Sustaining Community-Based Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning Platforms at Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone
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