Table 1 Steps to develop a systematic framework for Global Health Family Medicine

1. Identification of experts from several disciplines, with invitations to join a working group.

2. Comprehensive review of relevant literature focused on global health curriculum.

3. Consultations with key educators and content experts external to the working group.

4. Working group brainstorming sessions with exchange of relevant data.

5. Consensus meeting to agree on methods and factors (values and principles, competency domains, and learning strategies), to draft a framework and use it to develop specific global health enabling competencies.

6. Additional evidence synthesis

7. Serial teleconferences to draft competencies, concepts, principles and the framework

8. Review and approval of final framework and review documents