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Staff achievements

Prof Juanita Bezuidenhout was promoted to Professor in Anatomical Pathology with effect from 1 November 2012.
Dr Alwyn Louw was invited by the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) to act as 'global faculty' as a member of the FAIMER training team for this year's intake of new FAIMER fellows from various countries in the developing world.
Dr Stefaans Snyman was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to do a presentation on the highly successful application of the "International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health" (ICF) in undergraduate education at our faculty at the organization's congress in Brazil in October.
The academic rank of Associate Professor in Health Sciences Education was awarded by Stellenbosch University to Dr Susan van Schalkwyk with effect from 1 November 2012 .

Assessment workshop at Tygerberg

John Norcini, President and Chief Executive Officer of FAIMER (Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education & Research), conducted an assessment workshop at Stellenbosch University (Tygerberg Campus) on Tuesday 2nd October 2012. This workshop was organised jointly by Stellenbosch University, SAFRI (Sub-Saharan FAIMER Regional Institute) and SAAHE (South African Association of Health Educationists).

His workshop focussed on workplace-based assessment, and was well attended by 55 participants from the four universities in the Western Cape (Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, and Cape Peninsula University of Technology). It was a lively interactive workshop with small group work, providing valuable insights into aspects of workplace-based assessment.

Kumar and Clark visited Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

The text book, Clinical Medicine, is used worldwide for undergraduate medical students. The writers, Prof Parveen Kumar and Dr Michael Clark, recently visited various universities in South Africa. They also visited Stellenbosch Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and gave talks to lecturers, second, fourth and fifth year medical students. Photo: Prof Parveen Kumar (left), Dr Michael Clark and Prof Juanita Bezuidenhout (CHPE).

(Due to file size, the following podcasts may take a while to download.)

� Podcast: Prof Parveen Kumar's talk to lecturers

� Podcast: Dr Michael Clark's talk about the text book

Centre for Health Professions Education's session on Annual Academic Day

The guest speaker at this session was Prof Athol Kent from the University of Cape Town who spoke about "Why is the medical curriculum always changing?". There were also 12 presentations in oral and poster form. The winners of the categories were as follows:
The best oral presentation was Alma Snyman (Assessment of professional behaviour as Graduate attribute), the poster presentations winner Estelle Smuts (Does a structured dermatology skills workshop make a difference to student learning?) and the young researcher was Leanne Keiller (A map to nowhere: Are we improving the reasoning and critical thinking skills in physiotherapy?). All 3 winners of the prizes are MPhil in HPE graduates! The best oral presentation won an amount of R 10 000 to attend an educational congress. Photo: Estelle Smuts (middle), poster winner and Leanne Keiller (right), the young researcher winner, alongside Adele de Villers of the Clinical Skills Centre.