Research Articles (Centre for Health Professions Education)

The development of research competence among specialist registrars in South Africa: Challenges and opportunities for research education and capacity development

Moxley, K. (South African Medical Association, 2022-01)

To equip physicians with the competencies that support evidence-based healthcare, curriculum frameworks for medical education often promote scholarly activity as an essential component of training. Many medical schools ...

Patient-centred care: The patients’ perspective – A mixed-methods pilot study

Turner, Roseanne E; Archer, Elize (2020-10-09)

Background: Patient centredness is a broad concept, a moral philosophy. Patient-centred care can be viewed as the actions of patient-centredness. One of the most pertinent actions that a healthcare practitioner can utilise ...

Optimising the learning environment for undergraduate students in the Department of Family Medicine at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University

Govender, I.; De Villiers, Martin (South African Academy of Family Physicians, 2019-10-28)

Background: An important determinant of a medical student’s behaviour and performance is the department’s teaching and learning environment. Evaluation of such an environment can explore methods to improve educational ...

The critical care society of Southern Africa consensus statement on ICU triage and rationing (ConICTri)

Joynt, G. M.; Gopalan, D. P.; Argent, A. A.; Chetty, S.; Wise, R.; Lai, V. K. W.; Hodgson, E.; Lee, A.; Joubert, I; Mokgokong, S.; Tshukutsoane, S.; Richards, G. A.; C., Menezes; Mathivha, R. L.; Espen, B.; Levy, B.; Asante, K.; Paruk, F. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2019)

Background. In South Africa (SA), intensive care is faced with the challenge of resource scarcity as well as an increasing demand for intensive care unit (ICU) services. ICU services are expensive, and practitioners in ...

Perceptions of physiotherapy clinical educators’ dual roles as mentors and assessors : influence on teaching–learning relationships

Meyer, Ilse S.; Louw, Alwyn; Ernstzen, Dawn V. (AOSIS Publishing, 2019)

Background: Central to clinical education is the teaching–learning (T-L) relationship that evolves between the clinical educator (CE) and the student. Within this T-L relationship, CEs may be expected to fulfil dual roles ...

A systematic analysis of doctoral publication trends in South Africa

Van Schalkwyk, Susan; Mouton, J. (Johann); Redelinghuys, Herman; McKenna, Sioux (ASSAf, 2020-07-29)

It is incumbent upon doctoral students that their work makes a substantive contribution to the field within which it is conducted. Dissemination of this work beyond the dissertation, whether whilst studying or after ...

Measuring empathy in a group of South African undergraduate medical students using the student version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy

Archer, Elize; Turner, Roseanne (AOSIS, 2019)

Background: Patient-centred care is a model of care that demands healthcare providers change their focus from the disease to the patient and his or her perceived physical and psycho-social needs. This model requires ...

Using Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) for emergency medical service education

Sheahan, Judy; Van Schalkwyk, Susan; Keiller, Lianne; Dippenaar, Enrico (Emergency Care Society of South Africa, 2020)

Background: Continuous professional development (CPD) is a registration requirement for all healthcare professionals in South Africa. The shift-driven work environment of emergency and critical care providers often means ...

Perceptions of physiotherapy clinical educators’ dual roles as mentors and assessors : influence on teaching–learning relationships

Meyer, Ilse S.; Louw, Alwyn; Ernstzen, Dawn v. (AOSIS, 2019)

Background: Central to clinical education is the teaching–learning (T-L) relationship that evolves between the clinical educator (CE) and the student. Within this T-L relationship, CEs may be expected to fulfil dual roles ...

Implications for faculty development for emerging clinical teachers at distributed sites : a qualitative interpretivist study

Blitz, Julia; De Villiers, Marietjie; Van Schalkwyk, Susan (James Cook University, 2018)

Introduction : Medical faculties have the responsibility to graduate competent health professionals and a consequent obligation to assure the quality and effectiveness of their students’ clinical teaching. Many institutions ...

Interventions aimed towards the development of patient-centredness in undergraduate medical curricula : a scoping review

Archer, E.; Meyer, I. (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 ...

Designing faculty development : lessons learnt from a qualitative interpretivist study exploring students’ expectations and experiences of clinical teaching

Blitz, Julia; De Villiers, Marietjie; Van Schalkwyk, Susan (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 ...

Consequences, conditions and caveats : a qualitative exploration of the influence of undergraduate health professions students at distributed clinical training sites

Van Schalkwyk, Susan; Blitz, Julia; Couper, Ian; De Villiers, Marietjie; Lourens, Guin; Muller, Jana; Van Heerden, Ben (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 ...

Physiotherapy students’ perceptions of the dual role of the clinical educator as mentor and assessor : influence on the teaching–learning relationship

Meyer, Ilse S.; Louw, Alwyn; Ernstzen, Dawn (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 ...

Teaching first aid in high schools : the impact on students in the health sciences extended degree programme

Louw, A.; De Villiers, A. (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 ...

Self-directed learning : status of final-year students and perceptions of selected faculty leadership in a Nigerian medical school – a mixed analysis study

Nottidge, T. E.; Louw, A. J. N. (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 ...