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BusinessLive reports that some medical school graduates who completed their degree in 2016 are at their wits’ end over what they say are a lack of opportunities to do their compulsory internship.
About 1‚300 graduates who qualify as interns must be placed each year. Limited funding for intern posts has left nearly 100 medical graduates without jobs, and the situation could get worse after more than 1‚000 graduates return from studying in Cuba. The Department of Health said that "about 25" new doctors were yet to be placed in hospitals this year‚ mainly because they wanted to do an internship at a particular institution. One Wits University graduate is close to throwing in the towel and said that by y late 2016, “the Department of Health contacted all the remaining students who had not yet been placed and placed us on a WhatsApp group. There are about 100 of us on this group.” Another graduate from Stellenbosch is now working in the retail sector. The Western Cape chairperson of the Junior Doctors Association of SA, Dr Zahid Badroodien‚ said that in the past two years, not all students had been placed.
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