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US doctors-in-training to go back to longer hours
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has rolled back controversial rules limiting the number of hours US first-year residents may work.
Reuters Health reports that...
Secret KPMG report finds irregularities at UKZN med school
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine failed to implement its quota policy, blocking deserving youngsters from becoming doctors, found a...
Slightly better US mortality outcomes for foreign-trained doctors
US patients may have lower mortality rates if their doctors were trained at foreign medical schools rather than at US universities, a Harvard study...
SA medical students look to China
About 100 South Africans have applied to study medicine at Chinese universities through Student Alliance, an organisation started by SA doctors who qualified in...
Community service for new pharmacists should be dropped – PSSA
There is a lack of state posts for pharmacists to complete their year of community service‚ forcing them into unemployment, says the Pharmaceutical Society of...