Medicolegal Storm Threatening Maternal and Child Healthcare Services – SAMJ
SAMJ. South Africa (SA)’s healthcare system is on the cusp of a perfect storm that has the potential to paralyse service delivery, in particular the delivery of maternal and child services. This opening sentence to a recent SA Medical Journal article deserves to be read and taken extremely seriously. Click on the link below to […]
Five Keys to Leading Transformational Change in Primary Care
NEJM Catalyst. The imperative to change from an organizational culture and structure built around subspecialists and lucrative procedures to one that optimizes patient experience and health outcomes is one of the greatest challenges confronting academic medicine today. To drive change in this direction, the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Primary Care led an ambitious 4-year initiative, called […]
Thesis Develops Guidelines for Student Accoucheurs Training
DUT. Observing challenges faced by aspiring male maternal and child health care practitioners inspired Dr Themba Madlala to pursue his Doctor of Nursing from the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT). The topic of his thesis is, “Guidelines to facilitate acceptance of student accoucheurs in clinical practice at the Free State […]