Abstract
The training of medical specialists should constantly be re-aligned to the needs of the population and the health system. The national Education and Training Committee of the South African Academy of Family Physicians reached consensus on the updated programmatic learning outcomes for the training of specialist family physicians in South Africa. Learning outcomes were first developed to guide training programmes when the speciality was recognised in 2007. Fifteen years later, it was time to revisit and revise these learning outcomes. Learning outcomes define what family physicians are able to do at the end of 4 years of postgraduate training. This revision presents five unit standards and 83 programmatic exit-level learning outcomes.
Highlights
The training of medical specialists should constantly be re-aligned to the needs of the population and the health system.[1]
In 2021, the discipline of Family Medicine in South Africa presents an updated set of programmatic learning outcomes for the training of specialist family physicians, which defined what family physicians should be able to do at the end of their 4 years of postgraduate training
These new outcomes replace the previous ones that were published in 2012.2 The original outcomes were developed simultaneously with the recognition of Family Medicine as a new specialty in South Africa in 2007
Summary
The training of medical specialists should constantly be re-aligned to the needs of the population and the health system.[1] In 2021, the discipline of Family Medicine in South Africa presents an updated set of programmatic learning outcomes for the training of specialist family physicians, which defined what family physicians should be able to do at the end of their 4 years of postgraduate training. The College of Family Physicians, within the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, was mandated to run the national licensing examination Over this period, a number of revisions were already approved, such as new outcomes for training in leadership and clinical governance,[6] as well as a new list of clinical skills.[7].
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