TY - JOUR T1 - Physicians for Africa: rewriting the way in which postgraduate medical education is delivered and assessed in east, central and southern Africa JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 177 LP - 177 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s177 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Liam Fisher-Jones AU - Evarist Njelesani AU - Iain Fossey Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/177.abstract N2 - Africa has 25% of the world's disease burden but only 1.5% of the world's doctors. The newly established East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACoP) is rewriting the way in which postgraduate medical education is delivered and assessed in the region, while aiming to double the output of physicians being trained by 2030.The first step: to ensure those enlisted to teach at ECSACoP training centres have excellent, current skills in transferring knowledge to adults … ER -