Doctors in a divided society: the profession and education of medical practitioners in South Africa
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Breier, A.Wildschut
KEYWORDS: MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, STUDENTS (COLLEGE), UNIVERSITIES
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/doctors-in-a-divided-society
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3851
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6775
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6775
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
Many of the goals of South Africa's new democracy depend on the production of professionals who have not only the knowledge and skills to make our country globally competitive, but also a commitment to working and living here. Despite numerous reforms, the South African health system, ten years into democracy, remains divided: first world private care that ranks with middle income countries internationally at the one end, and at the other extreme, in the rural public sector in particular, conditions that are superior only to the poorest of African countries. Much work has been done to change medical school curricula in line with the primary health-care focus of government policy, and international trends towards problem-based learning. The student profile in medical schools is now not only more representative of the demographics of South Africa, but also reveals a significant increase in female students. Whether these students will stay in the country after graduating, and serve where they are needed most, remains to be seen.-
Related Research Outputs:
- A model for the analysis of professions and professional education applied to medical doctors in South Africa
- Why students leave: the problem of high university drop-out rates
- Adjustment to university and academic performance among disadvantaged students in South Africa
- Studying ambitions: pathways from grade 12 and the factors that shape them
- Motivating for a gendered analysis of trends within South African medical schools and the profession
- Student retention & graduate destination: higher education & labour market access & success
- Tackling plagiarism at university level
- Lecturers' perceptions on the academic performance of conventional and distance education students at UNISWA: a comparative study
- Education as a social determinant of health: issues facing indigenous and visible minority students in postsecondary education in western Canada
- Brutal inheritances: exploring diverse students' responses to racial, ethnic, language and religious privilege in four African universities
- Race, education and emancipation: A five-year longitudinal, qualitative study of agency and impasses to success amongst higher education students in a sample of South African universities
- Putting university-industry interaction into perspective: a differentiated view from inside South African universities
- Ready or not! Black student's experiences of South African universities
- Tweeting #FeesMustFall: the online life and offline protests of a networked student movement
- Uphahla lokuvavanya ubuchule bonxibelelwano bolwimi kwisipedi kunye nesiXhosa kwibanga le-9
- Factors influencing the level of performance in mathematics and language among learners in South Africa: a multi-level analysis
- Deracialisation & migration of learners in South African schools
- From racial liberalism to corporate authoritarianism: the Shell affair and the assault on academic freedom in South Africa
- A framework for assessing communicative language ability in IsiXhosa and Sepedi at grade 9 level
- Mathematics literacy of final year students: South African realities