Research Articles (Centre for Health Professions Education)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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