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Hope for foreign-trained doctors

board exams

QUALIFIED doctors who studied abroad will now be allowed to write medical board exams.

The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) recently announced that the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) had been appointed as the new service provider for the doctors to write their exams, to enable them to practise medicine in the country.

The HPCSA said it had signed a contract with UKZN to manage the board exams for the next three years.

The HPCSA regulates the education, training

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