PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - John Sandars
AU  - Yingzi Huang
AU  - Trevor Gibbs
TI  - The challenge of training for family medicine across different contexts: Insights from providing training in China
AID  - 10.15212/FMCH.2015.0147
DP  - 2016 Apr 01
TA  - Family Medicine and Community Health
PG  - 47--50
VI  - 4
IP  - 2
4099  - http://fmch.bmj.com/content/4/2/47.short
4100  - http://fmch.bmj.com/content/4/2/47.full
SO  - Fam Med Com Health2016 Apr 01; 4
AB  - Physicians with expertise in providing training for family medicine, at both undergraduate level and postgraduate level, are frequently invited to run training workshops in countries with developing systems of family medicine but this approach is often a challenge for the incoming external trainers. There are general challenges in working across different contexts, especially cultural factors, the different approaches to training, including the aims, methods, and assessment, and additional organizational factors, influenced by the wider sociopolitical environment of the host country. Practical responses to these challenges are discussed, with relevance to both external trainers and those responsible for requesting training. This commentary contains insights from the experiences of the authors in providing training for family medicine in China.