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Welcome Message from the Dean

Welcome to the School of Medicine, a hub of academic excellence and clinical innovation committed to transforming health outcomes through education, research, and service.

Our vision is to be globally recognized for excellence in research, education, and clinical practice delivered in a collegial and effective environment and always grounded in the realities and needs of our local context.

Our work is guided by a strong foundation of core values:

    • Excellence in everything we do from the laboratory to the lecture hall to the bedside.
    • Innovation that advances knowledge, improves care, and shapes the future of health.
    • Equity in access, opportunity, and outcomes for all communities we serve.
    • Collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and borders to amplify impact.
    • Accountability to our mission, our people, and our shared future.

      We recognize that our success depends on strong, meaningful partnerships. Together with our key stakeholder the Department of Health. We are also proud to have world-class research institutes producing research with global impact. Through these important partnerships we are able to shape our engagement with our other stakeholders in the hospital facilities, our faculty, students, the community, and our funders we are building a healthier, more resilient society. Whether you are a learner, educator, clinician, researcher, or partner, we welcome you to join us in shaping the next generation of medical knowledge and care.

Dean and Head of School

Professor Refiloe Masekela

Contact

Phone: 031 260 4216
Email: MbuyaneB@ukzn.ac.za

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Support the Professor Ncoza Dlova Medical Student Fund

In 2022, Professor Ncoza Dlova, former Dean and Head of UKZN’s School of Clinical Medicine, launched a fund to support medical students with historic debt. The fund will ensure that education is a reality for those who are struggling financially. Further, investing in future medical doctors will inject much needed human resources in an already overburdened healthcare system.

Dlova said, We are appealing to donors, non-governmental organisations, the corporate sector, alumni of UKZN’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine as well as alumni of the former Alan Taylor residence to assist with donations.’

Alumnus and founder of the Gift of the Givers, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman pledged R3 million towards the fund.

All donor contributions will be received by the UKZN foundation which will qualify donors to receive a section 18 A certificate which is a tax benefit for their pledge.

‘Support Doctors in the Making (uMuntu nguMuntu ngaBantu).’ ‘Fund the future – Fund a Student and Be part of the Solution.’

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