The Department of Clinical Sciences at Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) recently welcomed eight students from Groningen in the Netherlands for their 20 week placements in the clinical practices of the Radiation Oncology department at the National hospital, the Oncology Centre in Mandela drive and the Department of Clinical Imaging at the Universitas hospital. 

Two of the lecturers in the programme at the at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, The Netherlands, Sharon Haarmans-Jonkman and colleague Iris van Zuijlen attended the IEASA conference at CUT in August.

“On the day before the conference the two lecturers visited the clinical sites where the students will be doing their Work-Integrated Learning for the next 20 weeks.  The staff members have high standards and they were satisfied with the equipment, range of patients and the general conditions at the clinical sites in which students will be exposed to for their learning here at CUT” said Prof. Hesta Friedrich-Nel, Head of the Department of Clinical Sciences. The exchange student number in the department has doubled from 2012 to 2013. The students are Iris Rozema, Cindy Reekers, Christian Blankvoort, Anne-Wytske Jellema, Floor Ewald, Thomas Ludden, Redmer Stiensma and Donnique Broekhuis.   

Pictured with the exchange students are Mss Belinda van der Merwe, and Louisa Beyer, Lecturers in the Department of Clinical Sciences; Dr Jimmy Ellis and Mr Thabo Mnzamani, both from CUT’s International Office.