of Health Sciences, University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein, South Africa, were invited to participate in the study. Students were requested to voluntarily complete an anonymous questionnaire during academic contact sessions in March 2010. Second-year students were included in the sample because of the assumption that they would have adapted to their course and university environment by the end of their first year. The opinions of older, more mature students with some exposure to the working environment of their respective occupations were obtained. These included fourth- and fifth-year students in the five-year MB ChB course and fourth-year students in the other fouryear courses, with the exception of third-year students in the three-year BSc Radiation Science course. The target population (N=668) included second-year (n=277) and senior (n=391) students