ECSACOP

{{Short description|African medical organization}}

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| name = East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians

| formation = {{start date and years ago|December 2015}}

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| abbreviation = ECSACOP

| type = Professional association

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| status = Non-government organization

| headquarters = 2nd floor IDI-Mckinell, Knowledge center, P.BOx 22418, Kampala

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| language = English

| leader_title = President

| leader_name = Professor James Jowi of Kenya

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| website = https://ecsacop.org/

| location = Kampala, Uganda

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The East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACOP) provides training in the region of East, Central, and Southern Africa as an independent organisation that supports postgraduate education in internal medicine. A standard internal medicine training curriculum is provided by ECSACOP, together with a qualification exam that has been internationally benchmarked. Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are the current seven sub-Saharan nations where ECSACOP conducts operations on a non-profit basis.{{cite journal | vauthors = Fisher-Jones L, Njelesani E, Fossey I | title = Physicians for Africa: rewriting the way in which postgraduate medical education is delivered and assessed in east, central and southern Africa | journal = Future Healthcare Journal | volume = 6 | issue = Suppl 1 | pages = 177 | date = March 2019 | pmid = 31363690 | pmc = 6616689 | doi = 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s177 }}{{Cite web |title=A NEW COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACOP) |url=http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com/archive/november-2020/a-new-college-of-physicians-east-central-and-southern-africa-college-of-physicians-ecsacop.html |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com}}