Developed and presented by Henley Business School Africa, the unique six-week course is designed to help medical doctors especially transition to virtual medicine and digitise their practices in the process...
Issued by Henley Business School 20 Apr 2021
South African healthcare workers were found to be at high risk of contracting hepatitis B, even though a vaccine can provide life-long immunity...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the enormous stress and burden placed on South Africa's medical professionals have dramatically strengthened the North-West University's case for a medical school in North West...
Issued by North-West University (NWU) 8 Apr 2021
The electronic vaccine data system (EVDS) allows South Africans to register online to receive their Covid-19 vaccination...
Jessie Taylor, Issued by Topco Media 1 Apr 2021
Healthcare workers can now register for their Covid-19 vaccine on the Department of Health's online portal
UCT's Faculty of Health Sciences has maintained its body donor programme during the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing its physiotherapy, occupational therapy, science and medical students to experience hands-on dissection and practise new surgical techniques...
Construction has begun on the new Foster + Partners-designed Cairo hospital, featuring soft and warm colours and shell-like roofs, located within a lush, verdant landscape...
A maximum of 66% of students will be allowed to return to university campuses, in line with the country's shift to Level 2 of the national lockdown...
Reports from around the world show that the shortage of health professionals in public healthcare systems will be worsened by the increased demand for health services caused by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Ian Couper & Jana Müller 9 Jul 2020
To ensure that medical students can continue their education in a safe environment during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences will create a unique satellite campus at Ireland's largest stadium, Croke Park.
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, will on Thursday visit Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to check its state of readiness in preparation for the phased return of students...
Onalenna Mhlongo 4 Jun 2020
As modern medicine has advanced, so too has our understanding of what affects health. Over recent decades this has generated a number of new fields in medicine. One of the most important that has been born out of the latest generation is social medicine...
Abebe Bekele & Agnes Binagwaho 4 Jun 2020
In a country with a chronic shortage of healthcare professionals, and a significant disease burden, it may come as no surprise to hear that doctors are 2.5 times more likely than anyone else to take their own lives...
Issued by Cipla 29 May 2020
Final year students and those graduating in 2020 may return to campus under Level 3 lockdown...
Since the lockdown, Mann Made has been working double-time (remotely, of course) to help local and international companies bridge this digitisation and virtualisation divide by offering immersive V-Hive virtual reality meetings, events and product showrooms...
Mic Mann, Issued by Mann Made 22 Apr 2020
In recent surveys, clinicians have reported that the current climate of medicine - with limits on the amount of time they can spend with patients during appointments, an explosion of biomedical knowledge and increased demands to update and review electronic health records - translates into less time for meaningful interactions with patients...
Patricia Hannon 24 Jan 2020
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize says the department has made dealing with staff shortages a priority for the year ahead...
The University of the Free State has initiated a programme to transport undergraduate students to and from the respective clinical platforms. This after the attempted rape of a medical intern, as well as the robbery of a medical officer in the parking area of the hospital...
The journey continues for Chippa United's emerging stars after they were crowned Engen Knockout Challenge Champions in Port Elizabeth on Sunday, 23 June, at the Glenville Celtic Sports Complex in Gelvandale...
Issued by Openfield 27 Jun 2019
Three Mpumalanga hospitals are running on skeleton staff and have shut down all outpatient services as workers embark on a stay away to protest a recent spate of attacks on doctors and nurses and unsafe working conditions.
Nelisiwe Msomi 19 Jun 2019
The mental strain on medical professionals working in South Africa can be immense, and levels of depression and mental fatigue are particularly high among professionals who dedicate their lives to the treatment of others...
Issued by Cipla 27 May 2019
Just 6.9% of female students say they never felt intimidated during their surgical training, compare to 15.8% of their male counterparts...
The psychiatric profession should play a greater role in advocating for patients' rights and improving management of mental health in the public sector...
As part of their fourth-year Health in Context block, medical students from University of Cape Town (UCT) taught basic first-aid skills to Mitchell's Plain residents...
When you think of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) you probably associate the technology with Pokemon Go and marketing gimmicks. However...
Bronwyn Williams 17 Aug 2018
Acquiring communication skills will probably occupy an increasingly important position in the medical curriculum of Stellenbosch University (SU)...
Jackie Pienaar-Brink 15 Aug 2018
Minister in the Presidency, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, says the medical graduates from the Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro (NMFC) programme in Cuba is a boost for the country's efforts to implement the National Health Insurance (NHI)...
Cost-effective solutions to help deaf people navigate healthcare in developing countries is exactly what Banele Mhlongo and Vuma Mthembu are trying to achieve with the app they are developing...
The Department of Health has placed over 1,500 medical interns and 1,300 community service doctors for the 2018 and 2019 annual cycle...
In a bid to increase its health workforce, the North West health department says more than 700 medical students will be leaving Cuba to come and do their final 6th year of their medical degree course in South Africa...
In July, 1,000 more South African medical students who have spent five years studying medicine in Cuba will return to complete their sixth year, graduate and start practising as doctors...
Lungile Pepeta 28 Feb 2018
Strengthening the country's district health system and improving the health and well-being of millions of people who can't afford medical insurance is one of the fundamentals to attaining universal health cover in South Africa...
Alec Basson 29 Jan 2018
At the Hospital Association of South Africa (Hasa) 2017 Conference last year, two private hospital chief executives and the head of the largest medical funder in the country laid to rest the myth that the private sector is implacably opposed to universal healthcare.
Dr Dumisani Bomela 4 Jan 2018
We are launching new medical schools but will we have places for their new graduates?
Farah Jawitz 14 Nov 2017
The House On Willow Street, Flatliners, Wind River, Only The Brave and Hotel Salvation open at local cinemas this week.
Daniel Dercksen 2 Nov 2017
Arbitration reveals the skeletons in the Gauteng health department's closet culture that gave rise to 141 deaths and continues to thrive...
Laura Lopez Gonzalez 20 Oct 2017
Nelson Mandela University (NMU) will open South Africa's ninth medical school in 2020 with its first class of 100 aspiring doctors...
Joan van Dyk 6 Oct 2017
A training resource on advising patients to modify their lifestyle to reduce chronic diseases has been introduced at various medical faculties...
Final-year medical students remember only six of at least 20 early warning signs of childhood cancer...
An American study shows that patients admitted to major teaching hospitals are less likely to die...
How much information should doctors and other medical professionals share on social media?
Andre Jurgens 28 Apr 2017
The first medical school since the advent of democracy is set to be built in Limpopo...
Most of the country's medical schools say final-year medical students will write exams...
Laura Lopez Gonzalez 1 Nov 2016
In South Africa, the doctor population ratio stands at a paltry 60 per 100,000...
A group of Wits medical students will be tackling the highest peak in Africa to bring smiles to the faces of some very special children...
Nicci Botha 5 May 2016
To build a platform of diabetes and hypertension experts across the globe, Merck has launched two awards for students across Africa and the Middle East...
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Matlwa Mabaso has been selected for 21 ICONS South Africa Season 3 as a voice for the new generation of South Africans dealing with issues such as race, poverty and gender and coming to grips with their sense of identity...
Operation Smile is currently on its Mega Mission which aims to perform 250 corrective surgeries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in one week...