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TL;DR: Low training costs, reduced training duration, and success in rural placements suggest that NPCs could have substantial roles in the scale-up of health workforces in sub-Saharan African countries, including for the planned expansion of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes.

TL;DR: E-learning in medical education is a means to an end, rather than the end in itself and can result in greater educational opportunities for students while simultaneously enhancing faculty effectiveness and efficiency, but this potential of e-learning assumes a certain level of institutional readiness in human and infrastructural resources that is not always present in LMICs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified non-physician clinicians (NPCs) in 25 of 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, although their roles varied widely between countries.

TL;DR: Findings from the study showed that countries are prioritising medical education scale-up as part of health-system strengthening, and many innovations in premedical preparation, team-based education, and creative use of scarce research support are identified.

TL;DR: This paper aims to explain these programmes more clearly, to identify countries that have or had such programmes, to develop a typology for the different kinds and to discuss the programmes in the light of important issues that are related to policy concepts and implementation.