South African Family Practice Manual

Specifications
Title: SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY PRACTICE MANUAL
Editors: B. Mash, J. Blitz-Lindeque
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0 627 02615 X
Cover: Hard cover
Publication date: September 2006
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Target market:

• Undergraduate medical students, as part of their training in
• family medicine, primary care and rural medicine
• Interns
• Community service medical officers who are required to work in family medicine, primary care or a rural context
• Postgraduate students enrolled for the Diploma in Family
• Medicine, the Masters in Family Medicine or the Diploma in
• Rural Medicine
• General practitioners working in the private or public sector
• Similar groups in countries other than South Africa, but with a similar profile may also find the book relevant, for example
• Namibia, Botswana and other sub-Saharan countries that are already utilising postgraduate distance education from South Africa

The publication of a new edition of the SA Family Practice Manual has been anticipated with great interest. The focus of the new Manual is on practical skills that family physicians should obtain during their training and that are required in primary care as well as at the district or rural hospital. This includes aspects of clinical examination, all common procedures as well as key skills in the areas of communication, occupational health, research, teaching and health care administration.

The SA Family Practice Manual has been a collaborative enterprise involving family physicians from all South African University Departments of Family Medicine