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Professor Marian Jacobs was appointed dean in the health sciences faculty on 1 January 2006. Prof. Jacobs is an MBChB graduate of UCT, where she is renowned for her contributions as director of the University's School of Child and Adolescent Health and of the Children's Institute. She first joined UCT in 1966 as a student and has been with the university for 40 years. Prof. Jacobs has a wide range of academic and management leadership experience, both nationally and internationally. She has built formal ties with institutions like the World Health Organisation and the Council on Health Research for Development. 

University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town is South Africa's oldest university, and is one of Africa's leading teaching and research institutions. It was formally established as a university in 1918. Its mission is to be an outstanding teaching and research university, educating for life and addressing the challenges facing our society. According to the University, educating for life means that the institution’s educational process must provide:

  • A foundation of skills, knowledge and versatility that will last a life-time, despite a changing environment

  • Research-based teaching and learning

  • Critical enquiry in the form of the search for new knowledge and better understanding, and

  • An active developmental role in our cultural, economic, political, scientific and social environment.

The university has six faculties – Commerce, Engineering and the Built Environment, Law, Health Sciences, Humanities and Science – which are supported by UCT's Centre for Higher Education Development, which addresses students' teaching and learning needs. UCT also has more than 60 specialist research units that provide supervision for postgraduate work and is home to more than a quarter of South Africa's A-rated researchers – academics who are considered world leaders in their fields. UCT continues to work towards its goal to be Africa's leading research university.
UCT: FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

The Faculty of Health Sciences has the oldest medical school in Southern Africa. Its core business is research in medical and allied fields, as well as teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students over a wide range of healthcare-related disciplines. The Faculty's campus extends from its main teaching hospitals – Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children's hospitals, in Cape Town – to a range of secondary hospitals and primary healthcare clinics throughout the Cape Peninsula and beyond.

The Faculty has 11 departments, falling under five new Schools. Its institutes are typically multi-disciplinary in nature and usually cut across departments; staff from different departments or discipline divisions may conduct research together in the same institute. The Faculty offers five undergraduate degrees in medicine and the allied health sciences and more than 60 postgraduate degrees and diplomas.The Faculty of Health Sciences values diversity in it student complement. The Faculty seeks to admit a mix of students that properly reflects the ethnic and cultural diversity of the South African population. This supports the experiential approach to learning in the undergraduate training programmes for healthcare professionals.
 
PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTATION

Substantial progress has been made in implementing Health OER activities at UCT. These include the following:

  1. A first OER awareness-raising workshop was facilitated by OER Africa. This workshop brought together over 40 members of Faculty, including most Heads of Department, and allowed an opportunity to present the concept of OER to the Faculty and to present the findings of a preliminary review of UCT’s policies.

  2. Contact was made with the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) at UCT, which is driving OER processes at UCT generally, and OER Africa was requested to provide input into various institutional policies processes that will took place during 2009.

  3. A preliminary review of Institutional and Faculty policies has been completed, and a report was produced.

  4. OER Africa and UCT collaborated in preparing a workshop on OER for the South African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE), that took take place in Cape Town in July 2009. This provided an opportunity to broaden awareness-raising activities across all South African universities.

  5. The following resources/materials were developed as part of this project. Click on the icons below to access these resources. 

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Ear, Nose and Throat Tutorial     University of Cape Town  Otorhinolaryngology
Occupational Focus Conceptual Framework  Zip File  University of Cape Town Occupational Therapy
Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health: Occupational Hygiene/Epidemiology  Zip File    University of Cape Town Family Medicine
Procedures in Obstetrics & Gynaecology    University of Cape Town Obstetrics and Gynaecolog
SAGP Guide Clinical Medical Practice  Zip File    University of Cape Town Family Medicine
Urogynaecology Textbook   University of Cape Town Obstetrics and Gynaecology


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