A5003004824- Innovations in Medical Education
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Radiology practices and education
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Online and Blended Learning
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Health and Surgery
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Higher Education Learning Practices
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
- Ophthalmology and Visual Health Research
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
University of Botswana
2014-2025
University of Zimbabwe
2021
University of the Witwatersrand
2013
University of Pretoria
2000-2001
Background The COVID-19 pandemic escalated the adoption and development of technology-enhanced health professions education during large-scale lockdown mandated in multiple countries. Although use technology is a hallmark healthcare professionals, including clinical education, challenges poor availability, lack skills support for learning teaching are reported. This study aimed to assess needs enhanced higher institutions Eastern Southern Africa. Methods was descriptive, cross-sectional...
Abstract Background Africa, like other parts of the world, continuously strives to deliver quality health professions education. These efforts are influenced a larger extent by socio-economic and cultural context region, but also what happens globally. The global disruption caused COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 necessitated implementation emergency remote teaching continue delivering on mandate educating future professionals. purpose this research was describe response selected education...
Background The current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all aspects of society worldwide. To combat the pandemic, measures such as face mask–wearing, hand-washing and -sanitizing, movement restrictions, social distancing have been introduced. These significantly disrupted education, particularly health professions which depends on student-patient contact for development clinical competence. wide-ranging consequences are immense, education institutions in sub-Saharan Africa not spared....
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the first cohort graduates from a new undergraduate medical programme in Botswana were adequately prepared for internship.The authors surveyed 27 interns and 13 intern supervisors on site, who rated preparedness 44 tasks using previously validated instrument. Tasks grouped according seven roles physician CanMEDS framework Cronbach α values confirmed internal consistency. To direction differences between supervisor ratings Likert scale...
The improvement of existing medical training programmes in resource-constrained settings is seen as key to addressing the challenge retaining graduates trained at considerable cost both in-country and abroad. In Botswana, establishment national Medical Internship Training Programme (MIT) 2014 was a first step efforts promote retention through expansion standardization internship training, but MIT faces major related variability between incoming trainees due factors such their completion...
Community-based education (CBE) involves educating the head (cognitive), heart (affective), and hand (practical) by utilizing tools that enable us to broaden interrogate our value systems. This article reports on use of virtue ethics (VE) theory for understanding principles create, maintain sustain a socially accountable community placement programme undergraduate medical students. Our research questions driving this secondary analysis were; what are goods which internal successful practice...
Medical internship is the final year of training before independent practice for most doctors in Botswana. Internship Botswana faces challenges including variability participants' level knowledge and skill related to their completion medical school a variety settings (both foreign domestic), lack planned curricular content, limited time structured educational activities. Data on trainees' opinions regarding content delivery graduate education like are limited, which makes it difficult revise...
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Best practices, policy and innovations in the administration of healthcare developing communities countries. For administrators, academics, researchers leaders. Includes peer reviewed research papers. Edited by Dr. Judith Shamian, President Emeritus, International Council Nurses, Professor Co-investigator with Nursing Health Services Research Unit, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty Nursing, University Toronto, ON
Background. The University of Botswana Faculty Medicine (UB FOM) is the only medical school in Botswana, and was opened to address shortages that other workforce strategies were not achieving at a sufficient rate. UB FOM programme involves early patient contact all levels healthcare. Newly-graduated doctors are expected perform managerial responsibilities, role which few curricula include formal training for. Objectives. To explore perceptions graduates educators (MEs) on leadership...
We describe a patient in whom stab wound to the right supraclavicular fossa led subclavian artery false aneurysm and an arterio-venous fistula (AVF) between internal jugular vein. The diagnosis was made clinically with computerised tomographic angiography (CTA). Open vascular repair successful. postulate that this presentation result of knife being inserted then partly withdrawn reinserted at different angle. This pattern injury has been reported previously following central venous line...
Longitudinal clinical placements are increasingly adopted by medical training institutions. However, there seems to be little evidence regarding their implementation in primary care settings the developing world. This paper explored students’ perceptions of learning experiences longitudinal clinics. The Manchester placement index (MCPI) survey was offered second-year students at University Botswana determine 16 weeks MCPI provided data on eight aspects which were analysed gain insight into...
I would like to thank the SAAHE executive very much for honour of this award - was not expecting it and am sure that deserve it. It means a great deal me. This morning, wish share concept all us have used in past, still use, will always use our educational work. is more than (or should be fact, when remains does enter realm practice, changes its nature, becomes opposite what be). common human endeavour only education.
Abstract Background Southern Africa, like other parts of the world, has always strived to deliver quality health professions education. These efforts have been influenced a larger extent by socio-economic and cultural context region, but also what happens globally. The global disruption caused COVID-19 pandemic necessitated implementation emergency remote teaching (ERT) continue delivering on mandate educating future professionals in 2020. purpose this research was describe change process...
Background. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated drastic changes to undergraduate medical training at the University of Botswana (UB). To save academic year when campus was locked down, Department Medical Education conducted a needs assessment determine readiness for emergency remote teaching (ERT) Faculty Medicine, UB. Objectives. report on findings surveys assess learner and staff preparedness fair just ERT, as defined by philosopher John Rawls. Methods. Needs were using Office 365 Forms...
South African universities are increasingly enrolling students from a variety of educational backgrounds.This brings in diversity levels language and learning ability face the challenge adjusting their curricula to meet academic needs different learners.This paper documents our experiences those teachers on course that we introduced at university Africa address student integrative higher institution learning.A five-pronged, spiralling, examinable entitled "Medical Thought Practice" was...