Tag: Academic mobbing

Apr0120201st Apr 20201st Apr 20200Commentby fmadmin

ETHICS: ONLINE COURSE GUIDES DOCTORS TO ‘FIRST DO NO HARM’

Posted in Food for Thought

Image: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay

By Marika Sboros

“First do no harm” is the golden rule of the Hippocratic oath. Medical doctors around the world have to swear it before their universities let them loose on trusting and unsuspecting patients. 

That oath lies at the heart of an innovative online ethics course that launches today.

It is the latest in the menu of online courses that the Nutrition Network (NN) offers. The NN is powered by the Cape Town-based Noakes Foundation.  Content is aimed primarily at doctors but has relevance for dietitians, nutritionists, nurses and health coaches, say organisers.

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Sep13201913th Sep 201916th Sep 20193Commentsby Marika

ACADEMIC MOBBING AT UCT: SHOCKING, NEVERENDING STORY?

Posted in Food for Thought

By Marika Sboros

Academic bullying or mobbing as it has become known is an ugly phenomenon. It’s a scourge, endemic in even the best universities in countries across the globe.

South Africa is no exception, as the extent of academic mobbing at the University of Cape Town (UCT) reveals.

A series of articles in the Cape Doctor magazine covers two egregious examples of academic mobbing at UCT. (Scroll down for a link to the online version.)

In a scorching editorial, editor Dr John Steer hits out at UCT for what many see as an entrenched culture of mobbing.

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Mar19201819th Mar 201825th Oct 201835Commentsby Marika

NOAKES: WILL ACADEMIC ‘MOBSTERS’ SILENCE HIM?

Posted in LCHF, noakestrial

By Marika Sboros

How did a dietitian with a business to protect get the might of a South African state body to prosecute world-renowned scientist Prof Tim Noakes? That question is hanging in the ether.

It also raises questions around the role of academic “mobsters” in a case that legal experts say defies logic, scientific evidence and common sense.

The Health Profession’s Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has appealed its committee’s comprehensive not-guilty verdict for Noakes. The appeal concluded in Pretoria on February 23, 2018. Appeal Committee chair, advocate Justice Mogotsi, will rule before the end of March.

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