Editorial

Family medicine as a discipline in South Africa: Historical perspectives

Indiran Govender, Olufemi Omole
Journal of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa | Vol 1, No 1 | a43 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/jcmsa.v1i1.43 | © 2023 Indiran Govender, Olufemi Omole | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 24 October 2023 | Published: 01 December 2023

About the author(s)

Indiran Govender, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, School of Medicine, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Pretoria, South Africa
Olufemi Omole, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Keywords

Family Medicine; history; community orientated primary health care; rural health; general practice

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