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Direct linkNicholas Munro; Heidi Matisonn; Nisha Nadesan-Reddy; Fatima Suleman; Douglas Wassenaar; Suvira Ramlall; Mosa Moshabela; Petra Brysiewicz – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Mentoring (healthcare) research from low-to-middle-income countries is critical for developing evidence-based healthcare solutions. This paper presents findings from a study of the mentoring and supervisory relationships embedded in a South African fellowship program for early career healthcare researchers. The findings demonstrate how, rather…
Descriptors: Novices, Faculty, Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education
Colette Melissa Kell; Yasmeen Thandar; Adelle Kemlall Bhundoo; Firoza Haffejee; Bongiwe Mbhele; Jennifer Ducray – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Academic integrity is vital to the success and sustainability of the academic project and particularly critical in the training of ethical and informed health professionals. Yet studies have found that cheating in online exams was commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the increased use of online and blended learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Integrity, Cheating
Download full textZijing Hu – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: Game-based learning has received increased attention in health sciences education in the global north due to its effectiveness in achieving learning outcomes. The literature concurs that learning outcomes can be improved through appropriate pedagogical approaches. However, more studies need to focus on game-based learning in…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Health Sciences, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Hansen, Anthea; Engel-Hills, Penelope; Jacobs, Cecilia; Blitz, Julia; Cooke, Richard; Hess-April, Lucia; Leisegang, Kristian; Naidoo, Niri; Volschenk, Mariette; van Schalkwyk, Susan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Global health inequities have created an urgency for health professions education to transition towards responsive and contextually relevant curricula. Such transformation and renewal processes hold significant implications for those educators responsible for implementing the curriculum. Currently little is known about how health professions…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Allied Health Occupations Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Principles
Lamese Chetty; Brigitta Kepkey – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
In South Africa, many students enter university without the skills required for success in higher education. Extended curriculum programmes (ECP) were developed to provide students who showed potential but were underprepared with the necessary foundations to achieve success in higher education. Student support services are essential to student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Support Services, Student Participation, Program Effectiveness
Jacobs, Cecilia; Van Schalkwyk, Susan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
What knowledge matters in health professions education is an issue of debate in the literature, foregrounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and informed by calls for students who are not only clinically competent, but also critically conscious of global health inequity. Building on this work, this paper explores what kinds of knowledge are legitimated…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Universities, Foreign Countries
Yolande Heymans; Courtney Strosnider; Jessica Pool; Marieta Jansen Van Vuuren – Open Praxis, 2024
Globalization and the call for global citizenship education have enabled virtual exchange to prepare healthcare students as emerging healthcare professionals for working in an increasingly interconnected and diverse world. Integrating virtual exchange opportunities into undergraduate curricula in higher education equips students with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes
Róan Slabbert; Jeanette du Plessis; Mpho Jama – Perspectives in Education, 2023
Peer-assisted learning (PAL) encompasses the active acquisition of knowledge and skills among students in similar social settings where teaching one another enables reciprocal learning. Same-year/ level PAL (SPAL) is applied in theoretical and clinical teaching across medical disciplines worldwide and is regarded as a teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Tutors
Thavanesi Gurayah – Africa Education Review, 2022
The objective of this study was to explore facilitators and barriers to completing an occupational therapy degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. A single case study design was used. The inclusion criterion was that participants had to have completed their occupational therapy degrees in 2015 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Seven graduates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Academic Persistence
Govender, Davina; Pillay, Tarryn; Maci, Nandipha; Vilakazi, Nokukhanya; Mthethwa, Snenkosi; Mansoor, Umar; Manquzi, Zweli; van Staden, Diane – Transformation in Higher Education, 2023
Optometry education, like other health professions, has historically been conducted via contact teaching and learning in classrooms, clinics and laboratories. In 2020, COVID-19 imposed an abrupt move to online learning for higher education institutions. This was performed with little insight into the feasibility and readiness for its adoption…
Descriptors: Optometry, Allied Health Occupations Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Nyasulu, Juliet C. Y.; Dreyer, Abigail Ruth; Molete, Mpho; Mothoagae, Gaolatlhe – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
Interprofessional Learning (IPL) prepares and upskills health service providers to function optimally in their collaborative care role. Expanding IPL to communities outside of traditional institutional and clinical settings is critical. We aimed to document the students' and facilitators' reflections on an IPL experience through community site…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interprofessional Relationship, Professional Education, Allied Health Occupations Education
Raisuyah Bhagwan; Lyrise Naidu – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Confronted by the disruption of work-integrated learning (WIL) placements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology experienced multiple academic and mental health challenges. This study highlights the impact the pandemic had on students from the Departments of Homeopathy,…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, COVID-19, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Phelan, Deirdre; Barrett, Terry; Lennon, Olive – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2022
This systematic review reports the state-of-the-art and evidence supporting interprofessional problem-based learning (iPBL) as a developmental tool for interprofessional competences. A targeted search strategy deployed across seven electronic databases identified 32 studies which met inclusion criteria following independent double review. All…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Professional Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning
Maputle, Ms; Mthombeni, Cs – Cogent Education, 2022
Student accoucheurs were perceived to be uncomfortable conducting intimate clinical procedures, hence the struggle to attain the required clinical learning experiences when allocated in maternity wards. A qualitative explorative, descriptive, and contextual design was used. Five focus group discussions of midwives were purposively sampled. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Obstetrics, Males, Females
Shakila Dada; Cathy Flores; Kirsty Bastable; Kerstin Tönsing; Alecia Samuels; Sourav Mukhopadhyay; Beatrice Isanda; Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe; Unati Stemela-Zali; Saira Banu Karim; Legini Moodley; Adele May; Refilwe Morwane; Katherine Smith; Rahab Mothapo; Mavis Mohuba; Maureen Casey; Zakiyya Laher; Nothando Mtungwa; Robyn Moore – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Over 8 million children with disabilities live in Africa and are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), yet formal training for team members, such as speech-language therapists and special education teachers, is extremely limited. Only one university on the continent provides postgraduate degrees in AAC, and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education
