Search Results - "Blitz, Julia"

When I say ... diversity by Chiavaroli, Neville, Blitz, Julia, Cleland, Jennifer

“…Diversity has become an important term in medical education, impacting on curriculum design, selection policies and school culture. For some, it may have…”
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IDEAL: Maintaining PHC-focused training in a MBChB programme through a COVID-induced innovation by Couper, Ian, Blitz, Julia, Fish, Therese

“…Responding to the need for authentic clinical training for students in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Stellenbosch University Faculty…”
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It's all about the patients: a shift in medical students' approach to learning during a novel distributed integrated clinical rotation by Couper, Ian, van Schalkwyk, Susan, Blitz, Julia, Fish, Therese, Viljoen, Kobus, Smith, Luné

“…To ensure that pre-final year medical students at Stellenbosch University were able to resume clinical training during the COVID-19 pandemic, a 12-week…”
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Emergency contraceptive knowledge, attitudes and practices among female students at the University of Botswana : a descriptive survey by Kgosiemang, Bobby, Blitz, Julia

“…Background: Unintended pregnancies are associated with unsafe abortions and maternal deaths, particularly in countries such as Botswana, where abortion is…”
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Decentralised training for medical students: a scoping review by de Villiers, Marietjie, van Schalkwyk, Susan, Blitz, Julia, Couper, Ian, Moodley, Kalavani, Talib, Zohray, Young, Taryn

“…Increasingly, medical students are trained at sites away from the tertiary academic health centre. A growing body of literature identifies the benefits of…”
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Designing faculty development: lessons learnt from a qualitative interpretivist study exploring students' expectations and experiences of clinical teaching by Blitz, Julia, de Villiers, Marietjie, van Schalkwyk, Susan

“…Clinical teaching plays a crucial role in the transition of medical students into the world of professional practice. Faculty development initiatives…”
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Longitudinal integrated clerkships from start to finish: A medical curriculum innovation by Blitz, Julia, Couper, Ian, Geldenhuys, Maryke, Klocke, Marina, van Zyl, Maria

“…Stellenbosch University embarked on a renewal of its MBChB programme guided by an updated set of core values developed by the multidisciplinary curriculum task…”
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Implications for faculty development for emerging clinical teachers at distributed sites: A qualitative interpretivist study by Blitz, Julia, De Villiers, Marietjie, Van Schalkwyk, Susan

“…Introduction: Medical faculties have the responsibility to graduate competent health professionals and a consequent obligation to assure the quality and…”
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A framework for distributed health professions training: using participatory action research to build consensus by Van Schalkwyk, Susan C, Couper, Ian D, Blitz, Julia, De Villiers, Marietjie R

“…There is a global trend towards providing training for health professions students outside of tertiary academic complexes. In many countries, this shift places…”
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Training of workplace-based clinical trainers in family medicine, South Africa : before-and-after evaluation by Mash, Robert, Edwards, Jill, Blitz, Julia, Mowle, Steve

“…Background: The training of family physicians is a relatively new phenomenon in the district health services of South Africa. There are concerns about the…”
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Consequences, conditions and caveats: a qualitative exploration of the influence of undergraduate health professions students at distributed clinical training sites by van Schalkwyk, Susan, Blitz, Julia, Couper, Ian, de Villiers, Marietjie, Lourens, Guin, Muller, Jana, van Heerden, Ben

“…Traditionally, the clinical training of health professionals has been located in central academic hospitals. This is changing. As academic institutions explore…”
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Perceptions of doctors and nurses at a Ugandan hospital regarding the introduction and use of the South African Triage Scale by Mulindwa, Francis, Blitz, Julia

“…International Hospital Kampala (IHK) experienced a challenge with how to standardise the triaging and sorting of patients. There was no triage tool to help to…”
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Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace: implementing formative assessment visits by Mash, Robert, Malan, Zelra, Blitz, Julia, Edwards, Jill

“…Family physicians have a key role to play in strengthening district health services in South Africa. There are a number of barriers to the supply of these…”
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Advancing a social justice agenda in health professions education by Jacobs, Cecilia, Van Schalkwyk, Susan, Blitz, Julia, Volschenk, Mariette

“…Health Professions Education (HPE) curricula have a dual purpose: to deliver professionals who are clinically competent and critically conscious of the…”
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Modifiable antenatal risk factors for stillbirth amongst pregnant women in the Omusati region, Namibia by Tshibumbu, Desire D, Blitz, Julia

“…Reduction of stillbirth rates is important because of the social and economic implications. Access to quality antenatal care is important in preventing the…”
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Decentralised training for medical students : towards a South African consensus by Young, Taryn, Moodley, Kalavani, Blitz, Julia, Couper, Ian, Talib, Zohray, Van Schalkwyk, Susan, Kent, Athol, De Villiers, Marietjie R.

“…Introduction: Health professions training institutions are challenged to produce greater numbers of graduates who are more relevantly trained to provide…”
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What keeps health professionals working in rural district hospitals in South Africa? by Jenkins, Louis S, Gunst, Colette, Blitz, Julia, Coetzee, Johan F

“…The theme of the 2014 Southern African Rural Health Conference was 'Building resilience in facing rural realities'. Retaining health professionals in South…”
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Widening participation—Much more than “just” widening selection by Blitz, Julia

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Curriculum renewal towards critically conscious graduates: Implications for faculty development by Schalkwyk, Susan, Blitz, Julia

“…Introduction Globally, faculty development initiatives in support of health professions (HP) educators continue to extend their remit. This work becomes more…”
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Medical school selection is a sociohistorical embedded activity: A comparison of five countries by Cleland, Jennifer, Blitz, Julia, Amaral, Eliana, You, You, Alexander, Kirsty

“…The medical school selection literature comes mostly from a few countries in the Global North and offers little opportunity to consider different ways of…”
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