Francois is husband to Louise and father of three sons. He is a family physician and works as the program coordinator for final year medical students in the Rural Clinical School of Stellenbosch University. Francois is the module lead for the Clinical Governance module in the Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Health and the co-lead for the Distributed Clinical Apprenticeship, which is the final year module for the renewed MBChB curriculum. He has a passion for service learning in rural distributed training learning environments. His involvement with the training of medical students started in 2004 as a site supervisor.