Potential for the specialty of Family Medicine in Botswana: A discussion paper.

The article discusses the aspirations and potential of the Academic Department of Family Medicine that was established in 2010. It says that the department aims to provide an undergraduate and postgraduate training programme to produce appropriately skilled general practitioners who can lead the primary care in transforming access and quality of health care. It also mentions that the curriculum was based on the regional distinctness of Family Medicine in African context which is formulated in the 2010 Statement of Consensus on Family Medicine in Africa.