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Ten years in the making: Toronto Addis Ababa Academic
Collaboration in Family Medicine, a decade of partnership,
leadership and innovation
Dr Praseedha Janakiram1, Leila Makhani1, Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul1, Meseret Zerihun2,
Dr Nitsuh Ephrem Kassaye2, Dr Nitsuh Ephrem Kassaye1, Katherine Rouleau1
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Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada, 2Addis Ababa
University, College of Health Sciences, Family Medicine
High-quality primary care, which includes family medicine, is fundamental to achieving health for all.
The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Family Medicine (TAAAC-FM) was launched
in 2013 as a capacity-strengthening partnership to support the inaugural family medicine residency
training program in Ethiopia at Addis Ababa University (AAU).
Over the past 10 years, TAAAC-FM has collaboratively brought Toronto and Addis Ababa leaders,
faculty, colleagues, learners and program supporters together to develop strong academic teaching,
curriculum development, faculty development and leadership and mentorship opportunities.
To date, TAAAC-FM has engaged over 30 Department of Family and Community Medicine faculty
from the University of Toronto in more than 30 teaching trips to AAU, with a focus on immersive clinical
and didactic teaching based on AAU-FM’s expressed curriculum needs. In 2019, due to COVID-19,
teaching trips were paused, and TAAAC-FM pivoted to create an active virtual curriculum designed to
supplement family medicine resident education. This curriculum, now in great demand, is pioneering a
new approach to support global health and capacity-strengthening activities.
AAU-FM has celebrated 51 graduates of the program and continues to welcome an increasing number
of family medicine trainees every year.
A critical achievement of TAAAC-FM has been the facilitation and transfer of leadership and ownership
of the program to local Ethiopian family physician graduates. By engaging in close collaboration with
AAU leadership, TAAAC-FM has become a model for academic global health partnerships in family
medicine.
Ethiopian and Toronto counterparts will discuss the ongoing strengthening of the family medicine
speciality within the country and beyond its borders with consultative innovation and mindful
leadership.
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