Foreign-trained doctors who spoke to City Press last week say they’ve long decried the arduous process of registration with the medical profession regulator. Numerous reports have previously detailed not only the foreign doctors’ difficulties in registering with the HPCSA, but those of doctors who were born in South Africa, but trained abroad. According to the HPCSA, there are currently 306 foreign-trained doctors who’ve applied for registration, but need to write the board exam before they get it. City Press understands that at least 120 foreign-trained doctors wrote the first round of board exams for this year in January. Sekhonyana adds that, while she didn’t know the exact costs prospective foreign-trained doctors incurred during the application and registration process, she acknowledged that these might indeed be high.

Source: News 24 July 20, 2020 19:52 UTC