GSMDM understands that our time and resources are limited. To effect permanent change in the lives of all people we touch, empowering the local people must be our first priority. Since 2013 the government of Cao Bang had entrusted 26 physicians, 2 from each districts to be trained by our primary care physicians. Three times a year, one week each, these physicians are trained in all aspect of primary care medicine. They are empowered to return to their villages and care for their own.