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    Coordinating Between Medical Professions’ Tasks to Optimize Sub-Saharan Health Systems: A Response to Recent Commentaries
    (Kerman Univ Medical Sciences , Jahad Blvd, Kerman, Iran, 7619813159, 2017) Eyal, Nir; Cancedda, Corrado; Hurst, Samia A.; Kyamanywa, Patrick
    We are grateful that our perspective received commentary from leading experts on African human resources for health. All endorse and several quote our central suggestion that the “development in [non-physician clinician] deployment should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking of the role of physicians and with critical innovations in physicians’ education and inservice training.
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    Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians
    (Kerman Univ Medical Sciences , Jahad Blvd, Kerman, Iran, 7619813159, 2016) Eyal, Nir; Cancedda, Corrado; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Hurst, Samia A.
    Responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician clinicians (NPCs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to NPCs as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery. This development should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking about the role of physicians and with innovations in physician education and in-service training. In important ways, a growing number of NPCs only renders physicians more necessary – for example, as specialized healthcare providers and as leaders, managers, mentors, and public health administrators. Physicians in sub-Saharan Africa ought to be trained in all of these capacities. This evolution in the role of physicians may also help address known challenges to the successful integration of NPCs in the health system.