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• Primafamed/VLIR Workshop 2010
• Primafamed Workshop 2009
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Events:

- Huraprim: Human resources for primary health care in Africa

HURAPRIM is an international collaborative research project that aims at developing and assessing policies and key interventions to address the personnel crisis in the health sector, especially in Africa.
The program wants to analyze the current situation, understand the complexity of the topic, review and test possible interventions and strategies, and contribute to more equi-table and efficient policy making in this area.
The project consortium brings together 6 committed African partners, representing different parts of Africa and specific realities with respect to health workers, with 3 experi-enced European partners.

For more information,visit the website: www.huraprim-project.eu

Report of the Cape Town meeting: PDF

- PRIMAFAMED / VLIR workshop 2011

10-13 July
Cape Town – South Africa

More information: PDF

- Primafamed workshop 2009

Training of Trainers/ development of departments of family medicine and PHC 27-30 October 2009 Rustenburg South Africa

This workshop will happen after the WONCA Africa conference for partners of the Primafamed project and the "VLIR Southern Africa family medicine twinning" project.

Programme: PDF

- WONCA Africa conference 2009

Dear colleagues,

The 2nd Wonca Africa Regional conference website is live and I encourage
you to register for the early bird rate. The program is exciting as we
hope that after this conference, we will take family medicine to the
next level in Africa. Please support your discipline.

The website address is www.woncaafrica2009.org (click on this hyperlink)

NB: For those traveling to RSA, apply early for your visas and if you
need letters for the South African Embassy, please let me know

Also book your flights now!!!

Convener is Prof Khaya Mfenyana (Wonca Africa President)
Chairperson: Scientific committee is Prof Steve Reid

Warmest regards,

Prof Gboyega A Ogunbanjo
Chairperson: LOC

- Primafamed conference 2008:

Improving the Quality of Family Medicine Training in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sharing experiences, ideas, knowledge and skills on training African Family Physicians

Goals:
Through linkages and exchange of joined institutes and input from experts  

• To develop unified and harmonised understanding of Family Medicine
• To exchange information, resources and skills and develop broad programs
• South-south cooperation and network strengthening

Content:

• Strategies for development of departments for Family Medicine
• Core curriculum for Family Medicine
• Accreditation and mutual recognition
• Quality assurance of academic programs
• Research in Family Medicine
• Roles and responsibilities of African Family Physicians
• Career paths for Family Physicians in the African context
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Networking and project management
• Training the trainers

Programme and information from all given presentations

Practical information:

Date:
17-21 November 2008

Place:
Kampala Uganda

Target group:

• Primafamed partners
• Primafamed associates
• Stakeholders
• All other interested people

Costs :

• Low income countries € 250
• Other participants € 500

Call for abstracts:

presentation or poster at the Primafamed conference 2008

1. presentation or posters on innovative or good examples of the following topics:

• the development of family medicine training curriculum
• accreditation and mutual recognition of family medicine training between universities
• involvement of the government/ ministry of health or education in family medicine training
• the place of family medicine in the national health system
• research in family medicine
• recruitment of students
• career path of qualified family physicians
• training of trainers
• development of training sites
• networking
• project management
• how to get funding for the development of family medicine training
• roles and responsibilities of family physicians
• social accountability in the family medicine training

2. poster from all departments/units of family medicine on their family medicine training: history, present situation, future development

Send an abstract of one page with the summary of your topic to Primafamed@ugent.be before 05/09/2008. Please clearly name your background and contact details

For more information download the leaflet: PDF

Registration form:

Download here the registration form: PDF or word-document

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