Family medicine internship support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa – A narrative report

Abstract

The health-service redesign that came with the preparation for the surge of COVID-19 had a potential of disrupting the Family Medicine internship programme like it did to many other health and academic programmes. A team of Cape-Town based Community Health Centre (CHC) doctors mitigated this challenge by designing an innovative tool that facilitated ongoing supervision of the interns in order to achieve the outcomes of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).

Keywords

• medical-interns
• supervision
• covid-19
• pandemic
• cape town