Table 12 Benefits and concerns in relation to Family Medicine mentioned by key leaders [5]
Benefits | Concerns |
|---|---|
• A clinically skilled generalist all-rounder at the district hospital • Mentoring team-based care in the community • A strong leadership role in the district health system • Developing comprehensive holistic practice of medicine • Focus on community care, such as community-oriented primary care (COPC) | • Family medicine is unknown or poorly understood • Poor recognition, visibility and role clarity • Struggling with policy ambivalence and needs advocacy • Slow pace of FPs being trained and low numbers of FPs placed into the health system |