Capacity of Anesthesiology Residency Programs in Four East African Countries: Can Supply Meet the Demand?
Authors' conclusion
The PAP workforce deficits significantly outstripped the annual output of all residency programs.
Study context
- Population
- Anesthesia residency programs in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, 2015–2020
- Participants
- 7 accredited residency programs
- Outcome
- Capacity of anesthesia residency programs to meet recommended human resource standards (World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) benchmark 5.0 PAP/100,000)
Methodological detailssurvey, multinational
- Survey
- Multinational
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Residency program capacity and PAP workforce · 2015-2020
- Enrollment, residents/country/year, median (range)
- 10.5 (2-18)
- Graduation, residents/country/year, median (range)
- 5.5 (0-13)
- Resident to supervisor ratio, median
- 1.44 (0.89-7):1
- Supervisors without academic faculty appointment, median
- 50.3 (21.4-100)%
- University tuition/year, median
- $1677 (600-6165)
- 5-year growth in physician anesthesia providers (PAP), median
- 79.3 (22.7-150)%
- PAP workforce density per 100,000 in 2020, median
- 0.23 (0.04-0.35)
- Deficit in PAP in 2020, median
- 1410 (589-2499)
- New specialists needed per country by 2030, median
- 1763 (763-2911)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Capacity of Anesthesiology Residency Programs in Four East African Countries: Can Supply Meet the Demand? Anesth Analg. Published 25 July 2024. doi:10.
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