Training Students

Dr Rushdi Hendricks is involved in the coordination of the Undergraduate Programme, including:

  • Daily clinical teaching in Hospital and outlying clinics
  • Supervise students in the clinics while working on patients
  • Teaching students in the operating theatre
  • Assist/ guide students with their research projects
  • Examining students clinically, orally and written on quarterly and semester basis
  • Performing as an Internal and External Examiner for the end of semester examinations.

Postgraduate students

Prof. Hendricks is involved in the supervision and training of registrars in a 5-year Master of Dental Surgery (MChD) Specialist Programme in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery (MFOS) at UWC.

Clinical and in-hospital training was undertaken at the Groote Schuur Hospital Complex Hospitals including Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Somerset and Conradie Hospitals.

International Students

For the past 23 years, Dr Rushdi Hendricks has had the opportunity to mentor and teach and students from the UK, Denmark, Netherlands and Germany. While the majority are of a dental background, some are medical doctors that specialize later. They have completed their undergraduate education and training. Some of them have later specialized in surgery or otherwise.

What began as an informal arrangement, later became formalized so that presently there is an MOU signed between UCT and University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG), Netherlands. This facility encourages UCT medical student exchanges to UCMG. Students visiting RSA are registered at UCT and also the Health Professions Council of South Africa for the duration of their stay.

Planned activities included:

  • At Prof. Hendricks’ Specialist practice, students see cases involving tracheostomies, head and neck surgery, orthognathic surgery, TM Joint surgery and obstructive sleep apnea surgery.
  • Students are exposed to pathology (especially tumours), trauma and temporomandibular pain and dysfunction patients. They are also exposed to dental implantology cases in both surgical rooms and the operating theatre.
  • At 2 Mil Hospital in Wynberg, they see military patients for not minor surgery, facial fractures, mandibulectomy, maxillectomy and reconstruction procedures, including free vascularized tissue transfer.
  • At Groote Schuur Hospital in the Department of Medicine, they get exposure to sleep apnoea research methodology (protocol writing and planning).
  • As working with dental implants sometimes involves sinus lifting, bone augmentation in the mandible and maxilla is often carried out.
  • Students spend with a restoring Prosthodontist and learn about rehabilitating the dental occlusion using dental implants.
  • Students work on research projects and prepare and present seminar topics.
  • Students perform tooth extractions in the townships, under University supervision.