Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Health Professions Education) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
