Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Health Professions Education) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Consequences, conditions and caveats : a qualitative exploration of the influence of undergraduate health professions students at distributed clinical training sites
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2018-12-19)Background: Traditionally, the clinical training of health professionals has been located in central academic hospitals. This is changing. As academic institutions explore ways to produce a health workforce that meets the ... -
Designing faculty development : lessons learnt from a qualitative interpretivist study exploring students’ expectations and experiences of clinical teaching
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019)Background: Clinical teaching plays a crucial role in the transition of medical students into the world of professional practice. Faculty development initiatives contribute to strengthening clinicians’ approach to ... -
The development, implementation and evaluation of a short course in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) skills
(Medical & Pharmaceutical Publications (Pty) Ltd -- MedPharm Publications, 2012-02)Background: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) examiner training is widely employed to address some of the reliability and validity issues that accompany the use of this assessment tool. An OSCE skills course ... -
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 ... -
Fresh simulation options in critical care nursing education
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2010-12)Many forms of simulation, as a teaching strategy, have been used successfully over the last few decades. Some of the advantages thereof in health sciences education are that it is a learner-centered training modality that ... -
'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 ... -
Improving undergraduate clinical supervision in a South African context
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2011-12)Objectives: The Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, has undergraduate programmes for several disciplines; these programmes need clinical supervisors to teach their students in the clinical settings. The ... -
Influence of confidence and experience on the competency of junior medical students in performing basic procedural skills
(African Journal of Health Professions Education, 2011-06)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Studies, mostly done with final-year medical students and doctors, show that the confidence level with which a clinical skill is performed is not a reliable benchmark of actual clinical competence. This ... -
Interventions aimed towards the development of patient-centredness in undergraduate medical curricula : a scoping review
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018)Background. Patient-centredness has been identified by most medical schools worldwide as a desired core graduate competence. Patient-centredness positions the patient at the centre of the consultation and, therefore, focuses ... -
Making use of an existing questionnaire to measure patient-centred attitudes in undergraduate medical students : a case study
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2014-09)Background. Patient-centred care is widely acknowledged as important to achieve improved patient outcomes in healthcare. Therefore, it is vital that medical schools should foster this attitude in their students. Studies ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Physiotherapy students’ perceptions of the dual role of the clinical educator as mentor and assessor : influence on the teaching–learning relationship
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Background: Clinical education is widely considered to be the cornerstone of health care professionals’ education. Clinical educators (CEs) fulfil many roles and act as both mentors and assessors in the learning process ... -
PIQUE-ing an interest in curriculum renewal
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2014-03)Background. The primary aim of undergraduate medical training at South African medical schools is to prepare the graduates adequately for internship. If we are to attain this objective, it is crucial to evaluate the ability ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
