Medical education reform in Tajikistan: comparison of the conventional one-year family medicine residency program and the new two-year residency program for postgraduate medical education

Abstract Introduction The last two decades have seen a shift in former Soviet countries from highly specialized to more family medicine-focused systems. Medical education has slowly adjusted to these reforms, although the region is still at risk to have a chronic shortage of family doctors. This pap...

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Main Authors: Leah F. Bohle, Edgar Valencia, Greta Ross, Davlyatova Dilbar Dzhabarovna, Shakhlo N. Yarbaeva, Zukhra A. Kasymova, Helen Prytherch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02749-x