Australian Association of Pakistani Professionals White paper on Family Medicine strategy in Pakistan. All enquiries to: Dr. Yousuf Ahmad email aappnetwork@gmail.com

1. Family Medicine in Pakistan
A Proposed Strategy
Australian Association of Pakistani
Professionals

2. Five Steps
Strategic Plan
Nationally consistent qualification & Training framework
Recognition, Registration & Accreditation
Industrial Framework
Jurisdictional Framework
Data & Evaluation

3. Define nationally consistent family
medicine educational standards
and identify a relevant curriculum
and assessment framework
applicable for the qualifications
required to support the family
medicine training pathway.
This framework documents are for
use by Medical Universities and
Jurisdictions (provinces) to guide
their training policies.
Postgraduate standards, Curriculum, Assessment
(Nationally consistent qualification & Training framework )

4. Recognition & Registration
Explore appropriate
options for recognition of
the family medicine as a
speciality within the
National Registration and
Accreditation Scheme.
The recommendations
should be cognisant of the
needs of existing and
future family medicine
trained doctors, trainees
and students

5. Industrial Framework
Develop a set of principles and
recommendations in relation to
industrial support, incentives,
peer support, mentoring and
remuneration for family
physicians in Pakistan.
The framework to support and
enhance working conditions
during training and throughout
family physicians’ careers.

6. Jurisdictional
Framework
Federal
Provincial
Districts
Examine capacity and
capacity building for
family physicians
Examine enhanced
long-term
employment /
remuneration
models/ options for
family physicians
Catalogue of current
employment
arrangements for family
physicians in hospitals
and other settings.
Alignment between
provincial and national
jurisdictional priorities
in family medicine

7. Data & Evaluation
Determine relevant national
data, analysis and evidence to
inform the evaluation of the
family medicine, and to support
family medicine workforce and
health service planning more
generally.
Rigorous evidence base to
measure impact of the family
medicine.

8. Government
and Private
Health Sector
• Take the lead in policy with
health system wide support
• Provide political and financial
support for universal access to
primary care
• Upgrade the status of general
practitioners, speciality
certification and recognition
through PMDC.

9. College of
Physicians
and
Surgeons
• Strengthen family physician faculty and
clinician role models.
• Develop postgraduate (residency)
curriculum and programs. Train a critical
mass of Family Physicians.
• Engage subspecialists in training and work
with family physicians
• Opportunities for advancement might
include technology, collaboration, changes
in pedagogy, flexible training methods, and
system-wide support

10. Medical
Institutions/
Universities
Medical Institutions/ Universities:
• Develop undergraduate (medical school)
curriculum and establish Family Medicine
Departments
• collaboration between primary health care
and public health.
• Develop and support organizations of family
physicians
International
• Involve leadership of international health
organizations
• Work with leadership of international family
medicine organization

11. Pakistani
Health
Professionals
Diaspora
• Establish an international Faculty or
consortium of Family Medicine
• Supporting capacity building to develop
curricula, training, assessment and
ongoing education.
• Explore and support training
opportunities for Family Physician
Trainees from Pakistan
• Supporting primary health care by
providing technical and academic support
to develop/ change service delivery
systems which can respond to local needs.