Engaging future healthcare professionals for rural health services in South Africa: students, graduates and managers perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The shortage of healthcare professionals (HCP) negatively affects health services in rural areas in many parts of the world, as is the case in South Africa. Innovative programs designed to improve the recruitment strategies for health system in a rural area are essential. They need support with a scholarship and mentorship programme for young people from rural areas to study for health science degrees, with the aim that they would take up a post at the hospital in their community, once qualified. This paper reports the perceptions and experiences of the students and graduates sponsored by the foundation, and those of managers from the facilities where the students were ultimately placed, in order to gauge whether such a programme can make a sustainable contribution to ad

SUBMITTER: Gumede DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7953823 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature