For Hospitals Starting A Residency Program

For Hospitals Considering a New Residency Program: You Don’t Have to Start From Zero

Your church hospital is already caring for your community, and maybe you’re now asking whether you could also train the next generation of Christian physicians to serve alongside you. CAAP was built for exactly this moment.

How CAAP walks with you from idea to accredited program:

    1. A site visit to assess readiness. CAAP consultants (at least half of them African academic physicians) visit to understand your hospital’s current capacity and what it would take to begin.

    1. A development plan built for your context. We help you identify gaps in research capacity, faculty teaching skills, and diagnostic or treatment infrastructure, and build a roadmap to close them.

    1. Curriculum, not from scratch. Draw on CAAP’s residency curriculum repository for Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine, plus a spiritual formation curriculum developed with PAACS, adapted (not reinvented) for your setting.

    1. Faculty you don’t have to recruit alone. CAAP’s network provides visiting faculty and virtual specialty consultation while your own faculty grow into their teaching roles, supported by our faculty development programs.

    1. A track toward national recognition. In contexts where Family Medicine isn’t yet a recognized specialty, CAAP engages Ministry of Health stakeholders on your behalf as part of the broader effort to open this path for your future graduates.

    1. Resources to sustain what you build. From MedSend salary top-off support, to DME and infrastructure connections (solar power, broadband, library resources), to help envisioning staff retention assets like an on-campus school or recreational space, CAAP helps you think beyond the launch to what makes a program last.

    1. A clear road to accreditation. Every step is oriented toward meeting the standards of your regional College of Physicians, with CAAP support at each stage of that process.

Programs at any stage (even just an idea) are welcome. See how to get connected to CAAP.