​Department of ​Health Professions Education​

Vision and Mission

Vision

Our vision is to be a leader in the field of health professions education globally with a view to facilitating the provision of equitable and responsive health care in South Africa and beyond

Mission

Our mission is to offer academic leadership towards establishing and sustaining and enabling environment within which meaningful learning and teaching can flourish and to influence the practice of learning and teaching drawing on existing scholarship while contributing to the body of knowledge through our own research; and informed by the principles of transformative learning; active citizenship and social accountability.​

The Departments reason for existence is:

Principles driving the DHPE:

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Excellence in Scientific Practice

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Culture of Diversity

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Community Oriented Approach

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Interdisciplinarity

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Learning-Centred Culture