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A retrospective content analysis of the ambulance emergency assistant refresher course outcomes as covered by free open access medical education (FOAMED) resources
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Continuous professional development (CPD) is a requirement for all healthcare professionals in South Africa. The shift-driven work environment of pre-hospital care often makes attending CPD events ...
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Alignment of current graduate attributes required of medical graduates of the University of Botswana to the expressed needs of users of the Botswana Health Service
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Traditionally, the design of health professions curricula was often guided by traditions, values and priorities of academics. This, however, has led to a mismatch of graduates’ competencies to patient and ...
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The use of peer teaching to promote active learning amongst senior medical students
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : A critical review of the curriculum at the University of Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences prompted the faculty to explore educational strategies that would engage students to actively learn. Peer teaching ...
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Medical students’ perceptions of their learning during longitudinal primary care clinical placements in a sub-Saharan medical school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Clinical placements are used as a bridge from classroom learning to real life settings (Stupans et al., 2013). Over the years, the Block Rotation Clerkship (BRC) model of clinical placements has been ...
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Exploring medical students’ perceptions on the effectiveness of a clinical skills rotation at a clinical skills laboratory
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Learning skills and competencies through simulation is a safe way of teaching medical students clinical procedures before exposing real patients to their practice. This is the case at the Ziauddin University ...
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Exploring medical laboratory scientist students’ experiences during their fourth year clinical practice period
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Medical Laboratory Sciences (MLS) recently introduced a new degree course for professionals of laboratory medicine. The revision of the qualification has led to the re-evaluation and restructuring of the ...
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The influence of a flipped classroom on the learning approaches of first year Speech-Language and Hearing Therapy students
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Students base their approaches to learning on their perceptions of the educational practices that they are exposed to. The significance of selected educational models is therefore not to be underestimated ...
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Feedback in clinical settings: perceptions of nursing students at a small rural district hospital in the southern part of Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Feedback is one of the basic elements that should be present in all clinical interventions used in clinical education. This is because it delivers the path by which assessment becomes a tool for teaching ...
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Allied health professional rural education: Stellenbosch University learners’ experiences
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016-10)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Rural clinical training is not widely established or documented for allied health sciences (AHS) learners. This article focuses on the experiences of AHS learners from Stellenbosch University’s ...
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Effect of curriculum changes to enhance generic skills proficiency of 1st-year medical students
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016-05)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Curriculum review is a dynamic, iterative process, and the effect of change may not always be wholly predictable. At Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa revision of the MB,ChB ...
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Mapping undergraduate exit-level assessment in a medical programme : a blueprint for clinical competence?
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016-05)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background. Assessment is an essential component of a medical curriculum. High-stakes exit-level assessment used for licensing and certification purposes needs to be sound. Even though criteria for ...
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Academic literacy revisited : a space for emerging postgraduate voices
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)SUMMARY : Few would challenge the notion that postgraduate studies, particularly at doctoral level, should make a contribution to the body of knowledge. Such contribution is typically the product of several years of academic ...
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Developing higher education curriculum in the health sciences context
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: How did it happen that Professor Eli Bitzer – the educationist – ended up being involved in health professions education? Was it a matter of a trans-disciplinary approach followed by two ...
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Graduate attributes for the public good : a case of a research-led university
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Hall (chapter two) and Walker (chapter six) stress the distinction between higher education as a private asset and as a public good. Previously, Walker (2002:43) argued strongly that universities have a ...
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Evolving doctoral identities : understanding ‘complex investments’
(SUN PRESS, 2014)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The metaphor of a journey is often applied to doctoral studies. This journey is characterised by a sense of ‘being and becoming’ that accompanies the emergence of a candidate’s doctoral identity (Green ...
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Die persepsies van nuut-gekwalifiseerde professionele gesondheidswerkers oor hulle verpligte gemeenskapsdiens in ‘n landelike gemeenskap in die Wes-Kaap
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Every person is entitled to basic health care, but access to health services is a global problem. Many rural communities have no basic health services available, with health professionals concentrated in ...
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Third year medical students’ perceptions of the “Values in Healthcare” selective module on their mental well-being: a pilot study from Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Mental wellbeing is of particular concern in medical students, who exhibit high rates of distress during their training which may persist throughout their careers. Since medical students are reluctant to ...
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Development of an aptitude test that measures language and visual-spatial abilities to identify potential academic vulnerability of students in anatomy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Students first entering the university, struggle not only with the culture, but more importantly with studying in a language that is not their first / home language. Students at Sefako Makgatho Health ...
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Utilizing students’ experiences and opinions of feedback during problem based learning tutorials to develop a facilitator feedback guide : an exploratory qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2016-01-11)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Feedback delivery within a Problem Based Learning tutorial is a key activity for facilitators in order to enhance student learning. The purpose of this study was to explore students’ experiences ...
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Engaging patient-centredness in an undergraduate medical curriculum
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : There is ample evidence that medical students’ empathy with their patients and their inclination towards patient-centeredness decline from the time they enter medical school until they complete their ...
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Learning about paediatric HIV and TB – exploring participant’s experience and perceptions to apply what they learned in a blended learning course
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Learning about paediatric HIV and TB – exploring participant’s experience and perceptions to apply what they learned in a blended learning course. Background: In response to health care provider training ...
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Professionalism for intern blood transfusion biomedical technologists: an exploration of perceptions and potential teaching strategies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Technical skills as well as professional values are essential areas of development in all health professional students including intern biomedical technologists. The aim of this study was to understand ...
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Alienation and engagement as framework for characterizing registrars’ perceptions of their learning environment: an exploratory qualitative study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Alienation and engagement as framework for characterizing registrars’ perceptions of their learning environment: an exploratory qualitative study. Research into students’ learning experiences in higher ...
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Student Nurses’ Experience of Feedback During Clinical Learning at a Rural Nursing School: An Exploratory study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction and background Feedback is an integral element of clinical teaching and acts as a platform for identification and correction of learners’ mistakes to improve their future performances. Without ...
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The status of curriculum mapping of undergraduate medical programmes in South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: Medical schools in South Africa have to provide evidence that the curriculum meets standards for accreditation and that graduates can address the health care needs in society. Curriculum ...
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'I have a chameleon-like existence' : a duoethnographic account of border crossing by two academic development practitioners
(HESA, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The practice of situating academic development practitioners within faculties poses challenges for practitioners from outside the particular discipline. Literature highlights how discourse and culture create ...
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Medical education departments : a study of four medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015-07)Background: Many African countries are investing in medical education to address significant health care workforce shortages and ultimately improve health care. Increasingly, training institutions are establishing ...
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Academic achievement of final-year medical students on a rural clinical platform : can we dispel the myths?
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: There is a growing body of literature relating to the establishment of rural clinical training platforms for medical students describing many positive outcomes, particularly in the case of ...
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Optimising cognitive load and usability to improve the impact of e-learning in medical education
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015)E-learning has the potential to support the development of expertise in clinical reasoning by being able to provide students with interactive learning experiences, exposure to multiple cases, and opportunities for deliberate ...
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Building a research agenda in health professions education at a Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences : current research profile and future considerations
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2014-10)Background. To generate evidence in and for health professions education (HPE) that can enable reform and establish new relevance, a comprehensive HPE research foundation is required. Gaps identified in the sub-Saharan ...
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