Elements of social accountability in undergraduate health sciences curricula: A scoping review.
Background: Social accountability represents the social contract between medicine and society, encouraging healthcare professionals (HCPs) to address social and health-related issues. The importance of integrating social accountability into curricula is widely recognised, but there is a lack of comp...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Physiotherapy Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD
2026
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