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Call for '6 months to a year' rural training for SA med students
SA medical students should spend 'at least six months to a year' in rural training programmes, which will help address the critical shortage of...
UKZN Medical School shutdown over clinic training continues
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...
Med school admissions scandal – first disciplinary steps
Internal disciplinary proceedings have started against a group of Durban students believed to have bribed their way into studying medicine at the Sefakgo Makgatho...
SA med students failing to recognise childhood cancer's early warning signs
Final-year SA medical students remember only six of at least 20 early warning signs of childhood cancer, found a University of the Witwatersrand study....
Serious lack of info on the impacts of Cuba-trained doctors
Reports of misbehaviour by South Africans studying medicine in Cuba have focused attention on the programme to alleviate rural doctor shortages. Chris Barron of...
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...