Health Sciences Student Computing Labs
ICTS has been contracted by the Health Sciences faculty to manage the Anatomy and Wolfson student computing labs.
ICTS has been contracted by the Health Sciences faculty to manage the Anatomy and Wolfson student computing labs. Garth Hector, the Lab Administrator, together with Assistant Lab Administrators and Lab Assistants, manages lab bookings, assists the faculty staff and students where necessary and ensures that students abide by the lab rules as set out in the General Rules and Polices handbook.
Please Note:
- Healthlab Computer Lab has a generator and is not affected by loadshedding.
Click here for a tour of Healthlab Computer Lab. - Wolfson Computer Lab does not currently have a generator. Please check the stage and area (area 15) as Wolfson Lab is closed during loadshedding.
Click here for a tour of Wolfson Computer Lab.
Access to the labs
| Lab | Who can use it? | Number of PCs | Location of Lab |
| Health lab Computer Labs | |||
| Open area | The open area may be used by all Health Sciences students as well as students taking courses in the Health Sciences Faculty. | 122 | Anatomy Building: Basement/Level 1, Medical School Campus |
| Teaching Lab 1 | The teaching labs are reserved for courses and for students requiring group work areas. | 21 | |
| Teaching Lab 2 | 29 | ||
| Teaching Lab 3 | 32 | ||
| Teaching Lab 4 | 24 | ||
| Teaching Lab 5 | 24 | ||
| Wolfson Computer Labs | |||
| Wolfson 1 | May be used by all Health Sciences students as well as students taking courses in the Health Sciences Faculty. | 60 | Level 7, Health Sciences Library, Medical School Campus |
| Wolfson 2 | 62 | ||
| Tutorial Rooms | The PCs are available to all Faculty of Health Sciences undergraduate students. | 18 individual tutorial rooms with 1 PC per room | Anatomy Building (spread across the second and third floors) Medical School Campus |
Opening hours
| Lab | Term time | Times | Vacations | Times |
Health lab Computer Lab Teaching labs | Monday - Friday | 07h00 - 21h30 | Monday - Friday | 08h30 - 16h30 |
| Saturday - Sunday | 08h30 - 16h30 | Saturday - Sunday | 08h30 - 16h30 | |
| Public Holidays | Open, but limited hours will be advertised beforehand | End of Year | Open, but limited hours will be advertised beforehand | |
| Wolfson Computer Lab | Monday - Thursday | 08h30 - 18h00 | Monday - Friday | 08h30 - 16h30 |
| Friday | 08h30 - 16h30 | Weekends and Public Holidays | Closed | |
| Weekends and Public Holidays | Closed | |||
| Tutorial Rooms | Monday - Friday | 07h00 - 17h45 | Monday - Friday | 08h30 - 16h30 |
| Saturday - Sunday | 08h30 - 16h45 | Saturday - Sunday | 08h30 - 16h30 | |
| Public Holidays | Open, but limited hours will be advertised beforehand | End of Year | Open, but limited hours will be advertised beforehand |
Your lab administrators
| Lab Administrator | Garth Hector Level 1, Anatomy Building Garth.Hector@uct.ac.za 021 650 6728/6729 |
| Assistant Lab Administrators | Unathi Sigenu Vuyisile Sali |
What software is available at the Health Sciences Labs?
The standard lab software is available in the labs. In addition, the following software is available in Health Sciences labs.
| Lab | Healthlab Open Area and Teaching Labs | Wolfson Computer Lab | Tutorial Rooms |
| Movie Maker | |||
| MRC FoodFinder 3 | |||
| MSVCRT | |||
| MSVCRT110 | |||
| MSVCRT110_amd64 | |||
| MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430) | |||
| MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB973688) | |||
| Photo Common | |||
| Photo Gallery | |||
| Respondus LockDown Browser 2 - Lab Edition | |||
| RStudio | |||
| swMSM | |||
| TeraCopy 2.3 | |||
| The WHO Reproductive Health Library 10 | |||
| Windows Live Communications Platform | |||
| Windows Live Essentials | |||
| Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant | |||
| Windows Live Installer | |||
| Windows Live Photo Common | |||
| Windows Live PIMT Platform | |||
| Windows Live SOXE | |||
| Windows Live SOXE Definitions | |||
| Windows Live UX Platform | |||
| Windows Live UX Platform Language Pack |