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Decentralised Clinical Training Platform

UKZN’s College of Health Sciences is the first higher education institution in the country to initiate steps to ensure that UKZN produces healthcare professionals who are fit for purpose in a primary healthcare model.

Primary healthcare (PHC) is part of a larger drive to get health care delivery fit for purpose in the 21^st Century with a view to ensure access to high quality care to a defined population. This vision is the driving force behind the re-engineering of the College of Health Science’s curriculum to ensure UKZN produces healthcare professionals that are competent and prepared for the changing dynamics of healthcare in a developing world.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which will remain operational over the next 5 years. This MOU provides an opportunity for everyone in the College to be a part of the process to produce competent graduates that will extend quality healthcare to all parts of the population.

Click to access the MOU with the KZN Department of Health: MOU Final Signed

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Physiotherapy Students Share their DCTP Experiences

‘My 10-week clinical training at Ngwelezane and Madadeni hospitals taught me independence and provided me with an opportunity to meet and interact with different individuals working in the clinical sites. It also allowed me an opportunity to experience first-hand challenges patients encounter when seeking healthcare.’

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This strategic meeting allowed academics and site-based clinicians to communicate and share their annual plans of placing students in identified clinical training sites, ie hospitals which have been assessed and found to be sufficiently equipped and resourced to handle the training needs of clinical students. Successes and challenges of the programme were also discussed at length during this meeting.

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