RURAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES A solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals?

Recruiting sufficient health personnel for rural hospitals is an ongoing problem. The Friends of Mosvold Scholarship Scheme in northern KwaZulu-Natal is a locally based scholarship scheme that offers the local community a chance to develop its own human resources for health care. Students are requir...

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Main Authors: A.J. Ross, I.D. Couper
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Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2004-02-01
Series:South African Family Practice
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Online Access:https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/16
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description Recruiting sufficient health personnel for rural hospitals is an ongoing problem. The Friends of Mosvold Scholarship Scheme in northern KwaZulu-Natal is a locally based scholarship scheme that offers the local community a chance to develop its own human resources for health care. Students are required to work in the local hospital during their vacations and sign a contract to work back their scholarship year for year. Already 44 people from Ingwavuma are being supported to study for a variety of health professions. This concept is being extended to the Limpopo and North-West provinces through the Wits Initiative for Rural Health Education. The scheme provides a model for human resource development at a district level that could be usefully adopted by any tier of government.
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RURAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES A solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals?
South African Family Practice
scholarships
rural hospitals
human resources
health professions
health sciences
training
title RURAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES A solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals?
title_full RURAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES A solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals?
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title_short RURAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES A solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals?
title_sort rural scholarship schemes a solution to the human resource crisis in rural district hospitals
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rural hospitals
human resources
health professions
health sciences
training
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