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Clinical Skills Of General Practitioners In Nairobi, Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study, Gulnaz Mohamoud, Robert Mash Jun 2022

Clinical Skills Of General Practitioners In Nairobi, Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study, Gulnaz Mohamoud, Robert Mash

Family Medicine, East Africa

Background: Quality service delivery in primary care requires motivated and competent health professionals. In the Kenyan private sector, GPs with no postgraduate training in family medicine offer primary care. There is a paucity of evidence on the ability of primary care providers to deliver comprehensive care and no such evidence is available for GPs practising in the private sector in Kenya.

Aim: To evaluate GPs’ training and experience in the skills required for comprehensive primary care.

Design and setting: A cross-sectional descriptive survey in 13 primary care clinics in the private sector of Nairobi, Kenya.

Method: A questionnaire, …