The physician-scientists: rare species in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorAdefuye, Anthonio Oladele
dc.contributor.authorAdeola, Henry Ademola
dc.contributor.authorBezuidenhout, Johan
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-24T09:20:31Z
dc.date.available2018-02-24T09:20:31Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThere is paucity of physician-scientists in Africa, resulting in overt dependence of clinical practice on research findings from advanced "first world" countries. Physician-scientists include individuals with a medical degree alone or combined with other advanced degrees (e.g. MD/MBChB and PhD) with a career path in biomedical/ translational and patient-oriented/evaluative science research. The paucity of clinically trained research scientists in Africa could result in dire consequences as exemplified in the recent Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, where shortage of skilled clinical scientists, played a major role in disease progression and mortality. Here we contextualise the role of physician-scientist in health care management, highlight factors limiting the training of physician-scientist in Africa and proffer implementable recommendations to address these factors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAdefuye, A.O. et al. (2018). The physician-scientists: rare species in Africa. Pan African Medical Journal, 29(8)en_US
dc.identifier.issn1937-8688
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.29.8.13239
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3524
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherPan African Medical Center for Public Health Research and Informationen_US
dc.rights© Anthonio Oladele Adefuye et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPhysician-scientistsen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectClinical practiceen_US
dc.subjectResearch findingsen_US
dc.subjectHealth care managementen_US
dc.titleThe physician-scientists: rare species in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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