For Established Residency Programs: Strengthen What You’ve Built
You’ve already done the hard work of launching a Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, or Emergency Medicine residency program in your church hospital. CAAP affiliation helps you go further, faster, and with less isolation.
What affiliation adds to your program:
- A path to regional accreditation. CAAP academic leaders (African and Western) conduct site visits that prepare your program to meet the standards of the regional College of Physicians, and help you apply once you’re ready.
- A specialist faculty network on demand. CAAP’s network of specialty academics provides visiting faculty to teach curriculum components you can’t staff locally, plus ongoing virtual specialty consultations so your residents and faculty always have a colleague to call.
- Recognition at the national level. Where appropriate, CAAP African and Western academics engage directly with Ministry of Health stakeholders to help make Family Medicine a recognized specialty in your country, opening doors for your graduates that a program can’t open alone.
- Faculty development that improves teaching, not just knowledge. Our professional development programs are built specifically to strengthen how your faculty teach, not just what they know.
- Research and academic promotion support. Collaboration on research projects and co-authorship opportunities to support your faculty’s academic advancement.
- Financial support for your people. Through our partnership with MedSend, CAAP helps provide “top-off” salary support for faculty and residents, a benefit that began at one site and is now expanding across our network.
- Infrastructure that keeps your program running. CAAP works with a network of durable medical equipment suppliers to help evaluate your center for DME supplies, physical plant refresh, library resources, high-speed broadband, and solar power installation and maintenance.
- Help retaining the staff you’ve invested in. CAAP’s leaders work with you to identify and develop the assets that make your hospital a place people stay, from a Christian school for staff children, to biostatistics/epidemiology/publication support, to administrative capacity and recreational space.
If your program is Aware, Applicant, Affiliated, or ready to pursue Accreditation with CAAP, reach out to start the conversation.
About CAAP
CAAP is a non-profit organization established by African and expatriate primary care academics to resource African medical residency programs in African church hospitals, in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine. CAAP is affiliated with Christian Health Service Corps in the US for 501(c)(3) status and administrative support, with an office in Nairobi, Kenya for organizational leadership and program development.