1. CanMEDS for
South African
Pathology Training

2. CERTIFICATE MMED MEDICAL SPECIALIST
HPCSA accredited training posts
Enroll for MMed at specific university
Colleges of Medicine South Africa
CMSA + Dissertation
MMED assessment + Dissertation
CERTIFICATE
MMED
MEDICAL SPECIALIST

3. Inconsistencies in:
Programme outcomes
Educational alignment between
university programmes’ content and assessment
university programmes’ and the College assessment
lack of College QA
PROPOSAL
Designed and developed in collaboration:
A national framework to serve as the guideline for training
Implementation of a unitary assessment by the COP
Research component managed by university
A national quality assurance framework

4. general competencies of specialists were extracted and clustered into seven major roles. These physician roles include the following:
Medical expert
Communicator
Collaborator
Manager
Health advocate
Scholar
Professional