CAAP classifies it’s relationship with African church/mission hospital Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine residency programs in four categories: Aware, Applicant, Affiliated and Accredited. As a nascent organization growing up during the travel limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic and expecting to achieve 501c3 status to accept donations in December 2021, we haven’t yet begun to perform site visit consultations which can lead to program accreditation.
The residency programs literally “on the map” of CAAP below are program of which we are well aware; many of them have been created or facilitated in their creation by CAAP board members.
Three programs fit our board’s category of Affiliated with an expectation of soon being “Accredited by CAAP”:
- Mbingo Christian Internal Medicine Residency Program, Cameroon
- Kabarak University Family Medicine Residency Program, Kenya
- ELWA Family Medicine Residency Program, Liberia.
Requirements for CAAP Accreditation are the following:
- Qualified program director leading the residency.
- Spiritual formation and clinical foundational elements in place.
- Site visit completed
- Program and institutional deficiencies identified during the site visit have been corrected.
Applicant program forming with whom we are in contact are Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi and Hope Africa University, Kibuye Hospital in Burundi.
Programs being formed of which we are Aware include
- Harpur Hospital, Egypt (Internal Medicine)
- Soddo Christian, Ethiopia
- Bongolo Hospital, Gabon
- Banso Hospital, Cameroon
- Malamulo Hospital, Malawi
- Hopital Baptiste Biblique, Togo
- Pioneer Hospital – Republic of Congo
This map locates a number of the various African church hospital residency programs in family medicine and the Christian internal medicine residency at Mbingo Hospital in Cameroon as well as church hospitals with PAACS programs considering starting family, internal or emergency medicine or paediatrics residency programs. This map is not exhaustive. Missing are the current ~15 family medicine programs at church hospitals in Nigeria. The well-developed network of training sites of the Universite Protestante au Congo family medicine residencies are also not all marked. A superb, thorough evaluation of UPC’s family medicine residency programs which provides locations and additional information can be accessed here: UPC FM Evaluation 2017