THEMATIC FRAMEWORK – THE FOUR ACADEMY PILLARS
SAHBA delivers educational events of transformational impact, addressing the career, business, financial and lifestyle challenges and opportunities of South African healthcare professionals.
Each SAHBA session is carefully built around four pillars, anchoring every event in relevance and practical insight:
- Non-Traditional Clinical Roles – reimagining clinical practice
- Non-Clinical Roles – deploying your skills beyond the clinic
- Joining or Starting a Private Practice – the business of being in business
- Practice Growth Strategies & Succession Planning – scale with purpose, process, confidence and with the end in mind.
Thought- leadership on financial literacy and wealth planning is woven around each pillar, together offering a structured yet expansive approach to career and practice evolution, ensuring every delegate finds content that speaks to their professional and lifestyle ambitions.
The SAHBA Experience
Our content draws from the experience and expertise of South African thought leaders in healthcare-specific business and financial management. The format of our curriculum, and its delivery, originate from The Private Practice platform of Australia – the first video below highlights the experience of the inaugural SAHBA courses delivered in Johannesburg and Cape Town in November 2023, the second showcases the SAHBA Women in Medicine Forum – staged for the first time in 2025, with some participants claiming life-changing impact. The 2026 Forum will be bigger and better!
The business of being in business
SAHBA Women in Medicine Forum
Women in Medicine Forum 2026
Career Clarity. Practice Power. Financial Freedom.
Medicine asks for everything. This forum gives something back.
Join South Africa’s most energising community of women clinicians for two immersive days of leadership, career development, practice-building, financial empowerment, innovation and wellbeing. Expect bold plenaries, choose-your-own workshops, mentor moments and real conversations that translate into real change — in your career, your practice and your life.
“It was by far the most exciting women-tailored meeting I have ever attended.”
Johannesburg 2025
The SAHBA Symposium
Career Pathways. Financial Mastery. Practice Success
Fri 6 – Sun 8 November 2026, Johannesburg
The SAHBA Symposium is our new, annual, 3-day flagship experience for doctors who want more than clinical excellence — they want freedom, leadership, and a future-proof career.
From career mentoring and private practice foundations to practice growth, wealth mastery, and innovation, you’ll choose your own learning and empowerment pathway through powerful plenaries, practical workshops, and curated networking — and leave with a clear plan you can implement immediately.
Be the clinician who leads the next era of healthcare.

