When I am standing in one of our medical school lecture halls at Nelson Mandela University’s Missionvale campus, I almost don’t believe that we have come this far. People have been waiting for a medical school in Port Elizabeth since 1946. It’s a giant boost for public health and the local economy.
These include lecture halls; a skills laboratory for second to final year medical students; basic science laboratories for physics, chemistry, physiology and anatomy; more than 60 offices for medical staff members; and new spaces for the medical school at the Dora Nginza hospital and the associated clinics.
One hundred medical students will be selected for the first MBChB cohort in 2021. Our first choice will be matriculants from the Eastern Cape with a matric pass rate of 60% or more, and we require maths, physical science, life science and English. BSc students wanting to switch to medicine must have a pass rate of at least 60%. There will be an 80% matric admission from schools and 20% from universities.
From first year to final year, our students will train in communities in the urban and peri-urban environment in the metro, and in district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, including Cradock, Graaff-Reinet, Makhanda and Humansdorp. In all these centres we will have district extensions of our campus, with accommodation and lecture rooms where our students will link to the main campus using audiovisual technology to participate in lectures, conferences and procedures.
Our medical school programme is also unique in South Africa. It’s a comprehensive approach to medicine that will focus equally on the four pillars — disease prevention, health promotion, treatment and rehabilitative medicine. The system produces comprehensive general family physicians, appropriately trained both for South Africa’s medical and health needs, and in how to best serve diverse communities.
NomfundoEngler Exciting times ahead 💕🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
I wish SA could stop parading medicine as a far fetched career. Build medical institutions just like apartheid government use to build teachers colleges. SA will produce more than enough Medical Practitioners.
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