July 4th, 2018
In the light of the Public Protector’s report on on the ‘improper’ alteration of the University of Limpopo's MBChB curriculum, its council must consider seriously whether UL has the capacity to mount a medical degree, says Professor...
May 30th, 2018Disadvantaged students from the UK’s worst performing schools do just as well or better in medical degrees as students from top schools, even when their A-level results are worse, The Independent reports a major study has found. These pupils...
May 23rd, 2018'Is anyone surprised that the programme that trains South Africans as doctors in Cuba has been a catastrophic failure?' asks Jasson Urbach of the Free Market Foundation.
Urbach writes: “Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was quoted in Business...
May 16th, 2018After more than 20 years, the contentious SA-Cuba medical training programme is being downscaled. Business Day's Tamar Kahn assesses the situation as the largest ever cohort of 720 students prepares to return to embark on local clinical...
February 28th, 2018Countries with greater gender equality see a smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), a new study has found. Policymakers could use the findings to reconsider initiatives to increase...
December 20th, 2017The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town has developed an exciting and pioneering model for training doctors and nurses in the complicated management of HIV and TB infected patients. In under-served areas where HIV and TB are...
December 6th, 2017
Opportunism and a 'crude populism ... informed by racial chauvinism' underlies claims that the University of Witwatersrand medical faculty is racist, says Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib. He was responding to a Sunday Times report claiming that of...
November 29th, 2017SA’s Health Department says all qualified final-year medical students, including those in ancillary services, will be get internships. However, the SA Medical Association remains 'concerned' about the lack of funded posts and Health Minister Dr...
The University of the Witwatersrand has denied owing any funds to the Gauteng Department of Health. Business Day reports that the university was responding to statements reportedly made by the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH)‚ alleging that...
November 15th, 2017SA is launching new medical schools but ironically may have no hope of employing all of their graduates, writes Dr Farah Jawitz of the Junior Doctors Association of SA in a Bhekisisa report.
One of the first lessons taught in medical school is...
The Merck Foundation has started the second stage of their Africa Oncology Fellowship Programme that started in 2016 with the aim to increase the limited number of oncologists in Africa.
Dr Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation said: “One of the...Training
SA medical students should spend 'at least six months to a year' in rural training programmes, which will help address the critical shortage of rural doctors after graduation, Stellenbosch University’s Professor Marietjie de Villiers said at...Training
The shutdown of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Medical School has entered its second week, the student leadership says it will continue to protest until its demands are met.
Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine SRC president Nkosinathi Ndebele...Training
Internal disciplinary proceedings have started against a group of Durban students believed to have bribed their way into studying medicine at the Sefakgo Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU, formerly Medunsa) in Pretoria North.
According to...
July 12th, 2017Final-year SA medical students remember only six of at least 20 early warning signs of childhood cancer, found a University of the Witwatersrand study. Medical schools needed to reassess their methods of training, said Dr Jennifer Ann Geel, who led...
Unemployed SA intern doctors, who have been left in limbo for six months, have taken their concerns to the UN and the World Health Organisation.
A Sunday Tribune reports that one of the doctors has addressed a letter to the secretary-general of...
