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Non-physician clinicians in rural Africa: lessons from the Medical Licentiate programme in Zambia

BACKGROUND: Most sub-Saharan African countries struggle to make safe surgery accessible to rural populations due to a shortage of qualified surgeons and the unlikelihood of retaining them in district hospitals. In 2002, Zambia introduced a new cadre of non-physician clinicians (NPCs), medical licent...

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Autores principales:	Gajewski, Jakub, Mweemba, Carol, Cheelo, Mweene, McCauley, Tracey, Kachimba, John, Borgstein, Eric, Bijlmakers, Leon, Brugha, Ruairi
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568330/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28830528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-017-0233-0

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