Medical Admission Policies: Assessment 1
Al Sharpton said: “I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.” What a wonderful experience that could’ve been, a feeling of a nation being one again. However, looking at medical school’s policies, did they truly make the nation one, or did they make it one-sided? To start with, we need to go back to why each medical school has their specific criteria. According to me it would seem that they all chose these criteria to reconcile for what happened during Apartheid. Although UFS say they are trying to be sensitive to the National Department of Health’s target for...