Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

The Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in Health Professions is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 4 YEARS.

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) offered by the Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Note: The curriculum of the MBChB is currently being renewed. The new programme will be offered in 2021 once its accreditation has been approved by the HPCSA.

The aim of the MBChB is to produce graduated Stellenbosch doctors who have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to optimally utilise the opportunities available during the two-year internship so as to function autonomously in the primary health care sector thereafter, and who have acquired the ability and insight to develop further personally and professionally.

The training of medical doctors
The six-year training is followed by two years of internship and thereafter a year of community service. Hereafter you will be eligible for registration as an Independent Medical Practitioner with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).

A wide range of employment opportunities exist, for instance in private practice, in hospitals or other medical institutions, in various government or nongovernmental organisations, in research, in academic medicine or in the private sector with, for example, insurance companies or the pharmaceutical industry.

Postgraduate studies for a career in research or for specialisation in any clinical discipline are further attractive options.



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