After consultation with the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Transitional Student Representative Council (SMU TSRC) executive, it was agreed that the election date for 2017/2018 SRC elections be on the 27 September 2017.
The elections will be independently managed by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Further details regarding the elections will be communicated to by the Director Student Affairs and/or as necessary.
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) academics have been elected to serve on the senate of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) for the next triennium (2017 – 2020).
The CMSA senate has 62 members and SMU is represented by six academics from their various colleges (approx. 10% of the senate). Those elected are:
Congratulations and a special thank you to our academics for availing themselves to serve and putting SMU on the map via their various specialist colleges on the CMSA senate
The Department of Anaesthesiology at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University and Dr. George Mukhari Academic Hospital hosted their annual Basic Airway Management Course on 25 August 2017. The aim of the course is to improve the knowledge and skills of airway management of doctors and nurses outside the Department of Anaesthesiology. For more information about the course, download Department-of-Anaesthesiology-Basic-Airway-Management-Course
Sasol TechnoX, an exhibition focuses on displays, workshops, tours, talks and hands-on activities aimed at impassioning learners, students and the public about the endless career possibilities of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Furthermore, the exhibition strives to expose the many facets of technology by encouraging learners to explore a wide range of disciplines and careers that STEM offers.
This year’s Sasol Techno X took place from 31 July to 04 August 2017, in Secunda, Mpumalanga. Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) had an opportunity to take part and exhibit a wide range of programmes offered by the institution.
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University came 3rd in the Universities category. SMU takes delight in knowing that, as an Institution of higher education we are contributing in changing the lives of young learners in our communities.
The Discovery Limited’s Black Economic Empowerment transaction was set up in 2006 as an independent trust, with an investment of R150 million in grants that were geared towards the education and training of 300 healthcare specialists over a period of 10 years. This was motivated by the critical shortage of human health care resources in South Africa.
The grants disbursed through the Discovery Foundation Awards aimed to address this challenge through training specialists for rural areas, developing academic medicine and research centres and increasing the number of sub-specialists in the country, to adequately meet the country’s healthcare needs.
At the recently concluded Discovery Foundation Awards night held at Bakubung Bush Lodge, North West province, the department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care received the following awards:
Discovery Foundation Awards for healthcare in rural and underserved areas (Individual awards):
These awards support the training and development of specialists for rural and underserved areas, and for senior doctors practicing in these areas. Of the five awards in this category, SMU received four (all in the department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care) and the recipients were:
Discovery Foundation Awards for healthcare in rural and underserved areas (Institutional awards):
The Institutional Awards aim to help improve the quality and delivery of healthcare through support for capacity building. In 2017, two institutions received this award, of which SMU Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department was one of the recipients.
This is not the first time SMU Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department benefited from the Discovery Foundation Awards.
SMU Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department is to be commended for putting the university on the map regarding these rural awards sponsored by Discovery Foundation.
