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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%"> <tr> <td height="27" bgcolor="#dd9b2a" class="homeheading">Health Sciences </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="100%" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td height="100%" valign="top"><p> <table style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" width="100%" summary="" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" width="70%"> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000">Welcome to the Faculty of Health Sciences. The Faculty is proud of the high quality of health professionals it produces in  the our three schools: </font></p> <li><a href="/faculties/index.php?FCode=08&DCode=014"><font color="#000000">The School for Allied Health Professions</font></a><font color="#000000">, </font></li> <li><a href="/faculties/index.php?FCode=08&DCode=017"><font color="#000000">School of Medicine</font></a><font color="#000000"> and  </font></li> <li><a href="/faculties/index.php?FCode=08&DCode=071"><font color="#000000">The School of Nursing.</font></a> <p align="justify">Teaching and learning is addressed in a serious manner, thence the high quality of  <a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?id=577&FCode=08"><font color="#000000">academic programmes</font></a><font color="#000000">. Participation in various professional and national organizations as well as the Faculty's contribution to </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?id=3939&FCode=08"><font color="#000000">research</font></a><font color="#000000"> has shifted the focus of teaching and training from a purely professional base to a combined professional and educational effort.</font></p> </li> </td> <td style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" width="40%"><img height="170" alt="" width="239" src="/faculties/images/08/Hoofde2010b.jpg" /><br /> <p align="justify"><img alt="" src="/faculties/images/08/bullet.jpeg" />The Faculty's <a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/index.php?FCode=08&DCode=018"><font color="#000000">top management</font></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> <tbody> </tbody> </table> </p> <p> <table style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" width="100%" summary="" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" width="85%"> <table height="177" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100%" summary="" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center"> News and events!</h5> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center">Faculty Forum NOW ON!!</h5> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><font color="#000000">Check out our <a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?FCode=08&DCode=ALL&uid=2">Student Forum winners!</a> - </font><font color="#000000">One of the most important yardsticks used to evaluate academic institutions is the quality of the research conducted at such an institution. At the Faculty of Health Sciences we place a high premium on the quality of research, and quality research is conducted on an ongoing basis. The </font><font color="#000000">2010 Faculty of Health Sciences/Astra Zeneca <a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?id=1004&FCode=08"><font color="#000000">Faculty Forum</font></a></font><font color="#000000"> takes place on 26 – 27 August 2010 in the Francois Retief Building on the campus of the UFS.</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center">Selection</h5> <p><font color="#000000">All applications for admission are subject to selection. Information about our pre-graduate selection requirements and selection procedure for all schools is available under </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?id=586&FCode=08"><font color="#000000">Admission</font></a><font color="#000000"> or download our </font><a href="http://studentportal.ufs.ac.za/documents/13/2011_Faculty_information/04_Health_Scieces.pdf"><font color="#000000">Faculty booklet</font></a><font color="#000000"> (pdf). Refer to the </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?id=577&FCode=08"><font color="#000000">Academic Programmes</font></a><font color="#000000">  for the yearbooks of the schools. Refer to the </font><a href="http://studentportal.ufs.ac.za/content.php?cat=1"><font color="#000000">Student Portal</font></a><font color="#000000"> for general orientation and registration.</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center"><img height="60" alt="" width="86" align="left" src="/faculties/images/08/061/Box3b.jpg" />Nutrition Symposium 2010                          </h5> <p align="left"><font color="#000000">The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of the Free State, is presenting a </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?id=7300&FCode=08&DCode=061"><font color="#000000">Nutrition Symposium</font></a><font color="#000000"> “Empowering Dietitians to THINK out of the Box” on 8 June 2010. This symposium promises to be an inspirational highlight!</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center"><img height="60" alt="" width="61" align="left" src="/faculties/images/08/036/NCL2a.jpg" />SA National Control Laboratory for Biological Products</h5> <p>The Faculty boasts a number of units of national importance, including <font color="#000000">the </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/index.php?FCode=08&DCode=036"><font color="#000000">National Control Laboratory</font></a><font color="#000000"> which is the only vaccine testing laboratory in the country that has been evaluated to do vaccines testing</font> for the World Health Organization.  All flu vaccines were approved before the beginning of the flu season and the start of the FIFA Soccer World Cup.  All measles and polio vaccines ...</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center"><img height="60" alt="" width="90" align="left" src="/faculties/images/08/047/Sportlab1b.jpg" />SA Doping Control Laboratory (SADoCoL) </h5> <p align="justify">The South <font color="#000000">African </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/index.php?FCode=08&DCode=047"><font color="#000000">Doping Control Laboratory</font></a><font color="#000000"> (SADoCoL</font>) at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State was contracted by the International Football Federation (FIFA) to be the official dope-testing centre for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup<font color="#000000">...</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cccccc"> <h5 align="center"><img height="60" alt="" width="83" align="left" src="/faculties/images/08/wound1c.jpg" />Community Projects</h5> <p align="justify">In today's competitive marketplace a Faculty that insures a consistent approach to offering Higher Education and service, is critical, thus the focus of the <font color="#000000">Faculty on that of a modern University. The Faculty is extensively involved in the integration of health delivery projects, and </font><a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/faculties/content.php?FCode=08&DCode=071&DivCode=0&uid=1824"><font color="#000000">community service</font></a><font color="#000000">.</font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><br /> </p> </td> <td style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" width="40%"> <table height="413" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="138" align="right" summary="" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/faculties/images/08/main-2.jpg" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/faculties/images/08/main-1.jpg" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/faculties/images/08/main-5.jpg" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/faculties/images/08/main-3.jpg" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="left"><img height="86" alt="" width="120" src="/faculties/images/08/wound1a.jpg" /></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><img height="62" alt="" width="120" src="/faculties/images/08/Physio_064b_pic.jpg" /></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img height="62" alt="" width="120" src="/faculties/images/08/Occ_062b_pic.jpg" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/faculties/images/08/main-4.jpg" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> <tbody> </tbody> </table> </p> <p> </p></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>

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