Roughly 25% of recent medical interns were accepted back into South African universities after their time spent in Cuba
The Auditor-General of South Africa has laid bare the shortcomings of an internship programme with Cuba.
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke revealed the costs and limited successes to Portfolio Committee on defence and military veterans earlier this month.The internship programme in question dates back to 2014 and sees medicine, biomedical engineering and psychology students take on 18 to 24 month learnership programmes.
Of the 21 medical students sent, only six have been accepted in university in South Africa while the psychology students have only been absorbed into “psychology-related fields”, reported the Sunday Times.
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