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Primary healthcare training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jean-Pierre Fina-Lubaki, Junior Mudji E’kitiak, Philippe Lukanu Ngwala
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | Vol 16, No 1 | a4508 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4508 | © 2024 Jean-Pierre Fina-Lubaki, Junior Mudji E’kitiak, Philippe Lukanu Ngwala | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 22 February 2024 | Published: 24 May 2024

About the author(s)

Jean-Pierre Fina-Lubaki, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Protestant University of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Junior Mudji E’kitiak, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Protestant University of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Philippe Lukanu Ngwala, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Protestant University of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the

Abstract

Family medicine is a relatively new discipline in the Democratic of the Congo. It was developed under South–South and Churches Collaboration with the aim of responding in a cost-efficient manner to the crisis of health practitioners in mostly Christian and protestant hospitals based in rural areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Keywords

primary care; family medicine; training; education; challenges

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