Vision:
Transforming health services through excellence and innovation. Mission:
SMU is a dedicated health sciences university providing professional training and education in a range of fields through excellence in teaching, learning, innovative research and community engagement. Institutional Values:
• Accountability: We are obliged to answer for the execution of our responsibilities. Accoun
tability cannot be delegated, whereas responsibility can be delegated without abdicating accountability
• Effective Leadership: we are results-driven and focus on achieving strategic objectives and positive outcomes.
• Efficiency: We pledge to be efficient stewards of the resources entrusted to our care to ensure maximum benefit for the university.
• Excellence: Performance excellence in the core and operational functions of the university.
• Integrity: We act with integrity in accordance with the highest academic, professional, and ethical standards.
• Respect: We respect and honour the dignity of each person, embrace civil discourse, and foster a diverse, inclusive, and safe community.
• Student Centred: Promoting student-centeredness as the heart of the academic enterprise.
• Ubuntu: Ubuntu encompasses respect, dignity, value, acceptance, sharing, co-responsibility, humaneness, social justice, fairness, personhood, morality, group solidarity, compassion, conciliation, et cetera.
