The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) was founded and financed in 1954 by members of the medical profession and was registered as a non-profit making company in 1955. It is the custodian of the quality of medical care in South Africa and is unique in the world in that it embraces 28 constituent Colleges representing all the disciplines of medicine and dentistry. Because the CMSA has the unique structure of containing all medical and dental specialities within a single framework, it has the potential to foster aspects of medical education and medical professionalism which are common to all disciplines.
The President of The College of Psychiatry, Prof Soraya Seedat, has written the following article for News24 regarding mental illness awareness for world mental health day.
Prof Alicia Sherriff and Prof Jeannette Parkes, the new and past presidents of the College of Radiation Oncology of The CMSA have written the attached article in support of cancer awareness.
