????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????The vision of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) is to promote health and equality in South Africa and beyond. The Faculty's mission is:?

• to create and maintain a culture of transformative learning;
• to contribute to the discovery, sharing and translation of knowledge that will promote health and development; and
• to benefit the broader community by means of active citizenship.

The FMHS offers a number of excellent academic training programmes, underpinned by research of the highest quality and supported by well-integrated quality assurance and academic administration structures and processes. These programmes provide for the needs of a wide range of healthcare disciplines.

Over decades of dedicated and sustained work, the FMHS has built up an excellent reputation for research. We continue to perform as a leading research-rich environment with extensive international collaborations, in addition to national and local partnerships. A research agenda shaped by strategic research focus areas ensures that our research activities address the major health challenges facing the African continent.

state-of-the-art equipment

The Faculty is a leader in terms of the acquisition of state of the art technology and equipment. It hosts the Sunskill Laboratory, an integrated clinical training laboratory that offers eight fully simulated theatre operating stations, a 'dry' laboratory, a 100-seat lecture theatre and a virtual ICU - all complemented and connected by breakthrough audio-visual capabilities. The Faculty furthermore continues to show strong growth in terms of research output, and an increase in research funding and collaborations.

proud research tradition?

The annual output of the Faculty is testimony to a proud research tradition: over 300 refereed scientific articles in reputable journals and more than 600 scientific papers, abstracts and posters at congresses and other scientific meetings in South Africa and abroad. We also, on average, graduate 80 master's and more than 30 doctoral candidates each year.

Read more about our research and capacity development initiatives here?.

convenient location?

The Faculty is situated adjacent to the Tygerberg Academic Hospital on the 肆客足球's Tygerberg Campus. It is conveniently close to public transport facilities and within easy reach of the Stellenbosch Campus (30 minutes by car), the 肆客足球 of Stellenbosch Business School (10 minutes), Cape Town (20 minutes) and Cape Town International Airport (10 minutes).

A wide variety of training opportunities covering all health-related disciplines are offered on the Tygerberg Campus and surrounding training platform in the Western Cape.

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REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

All students must formally register for the academic year in accordance with the 肆客足球's official programme for registration during January or July. Registration in July is only allowed under special circumstances. Registration entails more than the official recording of one's personal, biographical and academic particulars by the 肆客足球; it also requires payment of the prescribed registration fee. 

Copies of the complete programme for registration, as well as information on the user-friendly web-based self-registration facility, are mailed to all students who need to reregister the following year. During the registration process, every student receives proof of registration containing the programme and modules for the year; the onus rests with the student to verify that this document correctly reflects the instructional programme and year of study, and all the modules for the current year. Registration cannot take place if there are any outstanding fees.?