Department of Health Professions Education
Faculty Development - Individualised Workshops
The DHPE often receive invitations from within the faculty, related to development of educational skills. Amongst these are:
Assessment
Writing of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ's) workshops were presented to:
- Division of Physiology
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care
The DHPE have also helped departments to design and plan for OSCE's.
In previous years we supported the following departments:
Dept of Surgery:
- Support for research supervision of registrars
Dept of Paediatrics:
- Writing multiple choice questions (MCQs):
- Curriculum Design: a blueprint for teaching and learning
Dept of Internal Medicine:
- MCQ writing presentation
- MediClinic Durbanville - clinical supervision course for Physicians
Division of Orthopaedics:
Bioethics theory:
Centre for Evidence-based Health Care:
- Teaching Evidence-based Health Care in the clinical context
Division of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences:
- Strategic planning: Rehabilitation Reference Group
In addition, numerous ad hoc workshops were offered on request:
- MCQ writing workshops x 5
- Registrars-as-teachers x 2
- Teaching Evidence-based health care in the clinical context for the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care
- Occupational Therapy Faculty development: The traits of Generation Y students.
- Physiotherapy Faculty Development: The challenges of teaching to Generation Y students
- Physiotherapy students: Time management and successful study behaviour.
- Pre-doctoral academy: Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (module on scientific writing)
- Article writing
- Scientific writing
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