November 13th, 2019
Racial friction in the third-year MBChB class at the University of Cape Town's medical school has spilled into public. David Benatar writes on Politicsweb that the university administration is encouraging a culture of vicious victimhood.
David...
October 23rd, 2019
The Nelson Mandela University Medical School is gearing up to open in 2021. It is the culmination of a journey that started in 1946.
Nelson Mandela University health science dean Dr Lungile Pepeta writes in a Weekend Herald report: When I am at...
July 24th, 2019When new rules capped training hours for US medical residents at 80 hours per week in 2003, critics worried that the change would leave physicians-in-training unprepared for the challenges of independent practice. Now, research led by scientists in...
March 13th, 2019Medical schools have failed to include in their standard medical curricula training on hormone therapy, gender-affirming surgeries, or even the basics of sexual orientation and gender identity, argues an Association of American Medical Colleagues...
January 23rd, 2019After turning down placements at rural hospitals, hundreds of newly qualified doctors remain unemployed while the country’s rural state hospitals remain desperately understaffed because of a complex – yet fixable – situation. Amy Green writes...
January 9th, 2019Some 105 foreign-trained medical doctors battling for internship placements are heading to court, claiming they are being side-lined, reports The Times. The Health Department, however, denies there are students who have not been placed.
The...
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...
