Unit for Undergraduate Medical Education

The Unit for Undergraduate Medical Education is a department in the School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It sits within the school alongside the faculty's other departments and units.

Its research centres on medical education, with particular strengths in primary health care training, socially accountable curricula and community-oriented learning. Publications also address integrated primary care, online clinical education and patient participation, alongside equity in admissions and decentralised training.

Further themes include professional identity formation, drawing on African perspectives such as Ubuntu, and work on professionalism, activism, race and gender in medical training. The unit also examines preparedness for internship and ethical clinical engagement. Its research is focused on South Africa and the wider Global South, with attention to underserved settings.