Masters Degrees (Centre for Health Professions Education)
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The core competencies required by toxicology students in order to function effectively in a poisons information centre : a Delphi study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The training of medical toxicologists in South Africa is inadequate. In developing countries, where accidental and intentional poisonings are problematic, a need exists for tuition in medical toxicology. ... -
Physiotherapy students perceptions of clinical reasoning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Clinical reasoning is a vital competency of professional physiotherapy practice that contributes to the effectiveness of physiotherapy patient outcomes. Research on clinical reasoning and the physiotherapy ... -
Residents-as-teachers : needs assessment of residents teaching skills in a clinical setting using direct observation of teaching
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Residents teach undergraduate medical students and other health care workers in clinical settings. Despite this pivotal teaching role, the majority of residents have not received formal training ... -
Exploring nursing educators’ perceptions about the use of technology in teaching
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : In everyday life and especially in the healthcare system today, technology has increasingly become an essential part of daily functioning (Bastable et al., 2019; Bonnel et al., 2018; Oermann et al., 2017). ... -
How do non-attenders of faculty development offerings perceive their development as educators?
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Faculty Development, as a means of addressing the educational needs of health professionals entering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, has been undergoing continuous change of definition ... -
The perceptions of preceptors regarding assessment of clinical associate students at Walter Sisulu University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: Preceptors are vital stakeholders in the training of clinical associate students at district hospital training sites in the Walter Sisulu University Bachelor of Medical Clinical practice ... -
Perceptions of newly-qualified oral healthcare professionals about their exposure to service learning in their final year of training at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The main purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of oral health professionals from Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) regarding the impact of an undergraduate Service Learning ... -
Clinical associate students’ perceptions of factors influencing their developing professional identity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Lancet Commission called for educational reforms to improve the preparation of 21st century healthcare professionals through strengthening ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The first African regional collaboration for emergency medicine resident education : the influence of a clinical rotation in Tanzania on Ethiopian emergency medicine residents
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) has regional groups dedicated to furthering African Emergency Medicine. In AFEM East, Tanzania and Ethiopia have emergency medicine residency programs ... -
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 ... -
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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