Foreign trained doctors are accusing the Health Profession Council of South Africa (HPCSA) of failing them during the board examination. The South African Internationally Trained Health Professionals Association (Saithpa), says seventy percent of foreign-trained doctors who wrote board exams in October 2023 and February 2024 failed. Saithpa's legal desk chairperson Advocate Rene Govender, says something sinister is at play because the HPCSA, the custodians of the exams, refused students access to their scripts to review and verify alleged shortcomings. She now joins Sakina Kamwendo for more on this

<p>Foreign trained doctors are accusing the Health Profession Council of South Africa (HPCSA) of failing them during the board examination. The South African Internationally Trained Health Professionals Association (Saithpa), says seventy percent of foreign-trained doctors who wrote board exams in October 2023 and February 2024 failed. Saithpa's legal desk chairperson Advocate Rene Govender, says something sinister is at play because the HPCSA, the custodians of the exams, refused students access to their scripts to review and verify alleged shortcomings. She now joins Sakina Kamwendo for more on this</p>

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SA Internationally Trained Health Professionals Association accuses HPCSA of sinister intention for allegedly refusing to give students access to their scripts after 70% failed  board examinations

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