As the year creeps past the halfway mark, Ms Shamila Gamiet, our second, third and fourth-year clinical coordinator, raised the importance to have a supervisor feedback meeting. All our UWC clinical practical supervisors met today to discuss the current situation and the way forward. At UWC, we constantly seek ways to improve our teaching and […]
Undergraduate physiotherapy education in South Africa typically includes a series of clinical practice placements within the public health sector, where students are exposed to real-world working environments that provide opportunities for clinical and practical skills development. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, using this public sector network became severely limited, and alternate approaches had […]
Not so long ago was the first Genadendal outreach that the UWC third-year students attended. Last week another group of UWC third-year students spent 3 days in Genadendal as part of a CHS faculty outreach program. Well done to all of our students, faculty and support staff who made the visit such a success. The […]
As part of the introduction to clinical practice module (PHT110), second-year students from UWC spend half a day with residents at the Cheshire Home in Athlone. Students spend their time talking to residents about the challenges and experiences of living with their disabilities and the impact that it makes on their quality of life. At […]