Lessons from rural medical training for physics education in Botswana
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educationCreator:
J D
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IOP
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Abstract
Despite being classified as an upper middle-income nation by the World Bank, Botswana’s economy is undiversified and heavily reliant on resources and commodities. Efforts are underway to drive the economy towards a knowledge- and technology-based one. In support of these efforts the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) was recently established. It is foreseen that a future part of the BIUST undergraduate physics curriculum would be an internship placement for final year students. This article aims to provide a framework for the design of such an internship, based on the established practices of the final year internship of (rural) medical students in South Africa.
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