The Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care (FaCE) was established by UCT under the leadership of the Faculty of Health Sciences’ deanery and formally approved by Senate in December 2021. This new department brings five clinical generalist disciplines together, namely: Primary Health Care Directorate, Division of Family Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Palliative Care and Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine and Sports and Exercise Medicine. As a newly formed department FaCE is in the process of defining its collective Mission Statement and as a first step has agreed on its Massive Transformative Purpose “Building Inclusive Communities of Care Together”, to encompass who we are and how we envisage moving forward together. A bi-weekly Online Seminar Series has been initiated to encourage debate and develop our footprint across the Faculty, University, nationally and globally. The department aims to work alongside the faculty in translating transformational change into action to ignite agency for a just and inclusive society, built on health equity, and align with the University's Vision 2030 for unleashing human potential. As such social responsiveness, social accountability, diversity, inclusivity and serving the community underpin our vision together with contributing to making students fit for purpose. FaCE therefore aspires to healthcare for all, making lives better, nurturing partnerships, human rights, justice, moving humanity forward, holistic health, leaving no-one behind, effecting change in the health care system, purpose-driven research, feeding into curriculum transformation, building key relationships, international and African linkages, graduate retention, engaged scholarship, building a shared understanding of community-based education, partnering towards inclusive healthcare where you are, advancing equitable health for all through community of care, and building healthy communities of care together. https://www.facebook.com/FaCE.newdepar/
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