Dinamo Enterprises: Professional Network Health Care Itinerary

Dinamo Art

Professional Network Health Care Sample Itinerary
please note that itineraries are fully customisable to meet specific outcomes

Day 1	Arrival in Cape Town - Table Mountain Arrive in Cape Town where your guide and the coach will meet you. Weather permitting, we drive to the majestic Table Mountain, backdrop to the Mother City and reach the top by cable car. Enjoy lunch on the top of Table Mountain whilst you marvel at the panoramic view of the Cape Peninsula. Then return to the hotel to relax for the afternoon. In the evening enjoy a welcome dinner of traditional African foods at the Africa Café (included).
Day 2	Cape Peninsula Tour Today we take a trip around the Cape Peninsula. We stop at Hout Bay for an optional boat trip to Duiker Island, inhabited by several thousand seals. If open, we drive via the magnificent Chapman's Peak Drive en route to Cape Point, southernmost tip of the peninsula, and on to Cape of Good Hope, most south westerly point of Africa. After lunch, see the penguin colony at Boulders, near Simon's Town and the famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens with its display of indigenous plants and trees.
Day 3	Orientation Today after breakfast South African and academics and professional experts will give you an Orientation to the South African health care realities. The focus will be on a short historical and current reality introduction to the South African context, including the political, economic, social and cultural scenarios as they impact on the health care system. End of the day with cocktails and dinner and meet of the professionals you will be visiting during this week.
Day 4	Experiencing the South African Health Care Reality: Places and People You will be taken to some of the hospitals, clinics, wards and research institutions where South African health care professionals such as nurses, doctors and health sector managers work. Some of the contrasts still prevailing between the previously disadvantaged and the modern and more developed areas will be illustrated in order to create an understanding of the policy and health service delivery challenges in the highly diverse South African society. During the day you will also be introduced to people who may become part of your expanding professional health care leadership networks.
Day 5	Experiencing the South African Health Care Reality: Education and Training During the morning and early afternoon you will visit one or more of the educational institutions where people are educated and trained for their health service roles as nurses, doctors and health sector managers. This will include visits to a medical school, nursing college and a school of public management. You will also meet academics, trainers and students with the opportunity to exchange ideas, gain insights and build networks for the future. The day will end with a wine tasting in a cellar on a wine farm at dusk.
Day 6	Experiencing the South African Health Care Reality: The Health Departments, Organised Professions, Labour Organisations Today you will be introduced to the people who work in the health departments, organised professions and labour organisations in the health sector. This will provide you with an understanding of the policy, human resource and regulatory aspects of health service provision in South Africa.
Day 7	Experiencing the South African Health Care Reality: Facilitated Feedback of the Learning Experience After breakfast you will be driven through the Durbanville wine area for a tour of this cameo wine, route world famous for its great red and white wines. You will have the opportunity to taste and buy some of the great sauvignon blancs and shirazes of the area. A latish lunch will be taken on one of the wine farms where some of the people whom you met during your Go Health Care week will join you in a facilitated feedback and learning experience. This is the opportunity to confirm health leadership and professional associations and cement your networks before taking leave of South Africa where a miracle was created through the hard work of many people!