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Teaching first aid in high schools : the impact on students in the health sciences extended degree programme
(UNISA Press, 2015)Previously, first-year medical and physiotherapy students participating in the extended degree programme (EDP) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, spent eight weeks shadowing interns at a tertiary hospital during ...
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Self-directed learning : status of final-year students and perceptions of selected faculty leadership in a Nigerian medical school – a mixed analysis study
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Background. Self-directed learning (SDL) is the essential mechanism of lifelong learning, which, in turn, is required for medical professionals to maintain competency because of advancing technology and constantly evolving ...
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Self-regulated learning : a key learning effect of feedback in a problem-based learning context
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Background. Problem-based learning (PBL) has been adopted across many health professions training institutions. Small-group student tutorials are a major component of PBL. Facilitator feedback during a tutorial is a key ...
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Exploring health sciences students’ experiences of feedback in a problem based learning tutorial : a case study in an African Medical School
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Problem Based Learning (PBL) has been widely adopted by medical educators across the globe since its inception at McMaster Medical School in Canada. It is a student-centered instructional approach in which ...
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Exploring enrolled nursing and midwifery students’ opinions on professionalism in their clinical placements
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: Professionalism is a contested concept due to dynamic evolutions and variations in use and application. The term remains hard to define despite the extensive research by many social science ...
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The perceptions of basic science lecturers at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University on their need for health professions educator development
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Faculty development is an institutional imperative that aims to ensure that health professions educators are adequately equipped as educators in their profession. Institutions have thus developed and ...
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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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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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Teaching medication administration to nursing students – a scoping review with a decolonial lens
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Medication errors are a worldwide phenomenon. Medication administration errors are one of the most prevalent types of medication errors occurring in the medical field today. Nurses are mainly responsible ...
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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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Research involvement among undergraduate health sciences students : a cross-sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2017-10-16)Background: The development of research capacity among undergraduates is an important intervention in countering the documented decrease in medical and health sciences researchers. The literature on undergraduate research ...
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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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