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Article History

Received: 18 April 2023

Accepted: 22 August 2023

First Online: 4 September 2023

Declarations

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: Ethics was obtained from both the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch Health Resource Ethics Committees. All methods were performed in accordance with the ethics committee guidelines and recommendations. Reference numbers were as follows:University of Cape Town: 410/2021.Stellenbosch University: N21/06/053.Interviewees submitted informed consent to participate prior to the interview. The consent form provided to participants is attached as appendix .

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no financial or personal incentives that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

: The views expressed in the submitted article are those of the authors and not an official position of an institution or funder.

: This work adds new knowledge to the field of medical intern training in sub-Saharan Africa, by describing how traditional centralized training programmes were expanded into smaller district hospitals and primary health care clinics.