Abstract

UGWUANYI, Anastasia E.. Community-oriented primary care footprinting: An undergraduate programme experience. SAFP [online]. 2024, vol.66, n.1, pp.1-5. ISSN 2078-6204.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v66i1.5854.

The Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro (NMFC) programme, a government initiative to address healthcare inequities in South Africa, focuses on the training of indigenous students to become competent healthcare practitioners. A collaboration combining training in a Cuban primary care, preventative system with integration in a South African institution within a quadruple disease burdened healthcare system. This article reflects on integration experience at the University of Witwatersrand, a programme pedagogically positioned within a workplace-based, situated learning framework. Since 2022, community-oriented primary care (COPC) projects became part of the integrated primary care and family medicine learning objectives. This article summarises the experience of the 2021-2022 cohort and calls for the strengthening of undergraduate medical education curricula with learning objectives reflective of social accountability. CONTRIBUTION: This article spotlights work in the undergraduate space around teaching and experiential learning of community-oriented primary care in line with the journal's scope

Keywords : community-oriented primary care project; medical education; experiential learning; social accountability; Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro programme; University of the Witwatersrand.

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