Table 2 Themes and sub-themes

a) Education

b) Planning

• Train family physicians broadly as clinical healthcare leaders

• Address shortage of human resources (especially rurally) and poor planning

• We need to train more family physicians

• Help to organize the primary health care system

• Train them in rural sites

• Be community- and family-based

• Bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate training

c) Supervision

d) General HR management (minor)

• Leaders are required

• Recruitment

• Organisational development strategies

• Compensation

• Systems supports

• Career choice

• Lifelong learning

• Migration