Undergraduate physiotherapy research training in south africa: the Medunsa experience

Applicability and fairness of the oral examination in undergraduate psychiatry training in South Africa.

OBJECTIVE There are several methods of evaluating medical students' performance, such as written examination, oral examination and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). Many studies have focused on the reliability and validity of these methods but few studies have explored comparison between these methods. Psychiatry is the only subject at the University of Stellenbosch where the fi...

Uber: The South Africa Experience

Disruptive technology has received much attention as it has changed how consumers consume tourism offerings by creating new companies such as Uber. Technology remains the most powerful external force that is shaping the world today, impacting on all aspects of life. The technology used by Uber is smartphone compatible and this means that the taxi is requested at ‘the palm of a hand’. The veloci...

Training psychiatrists in South Africa.

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Teaching research: a programme to develop research capacity in undergraduate medical students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

BACKGROUND Improved research ability is a core competency to achieve in health professionals. The Selectives is a three-year, longitudinal, community-based programme within the undergraduate curriculum which aims to develop research capacity in all medical students during the prescribed curriculum. In relation to the programme, the authors describe the types of studies conducted by students, co...