The research listed below are all teaching driven studies done by staff or co-workers of the CHSE. These studies reflect how lecturers enhance teaching and learning in their specific clinical fields.
Various funding sources are available. FIRLT (Fund for Innovation and Research into Learning and Teaching) funding is granted twice per annum. For more details contact Jean Farmer at CTL (Centre for Teaching and Learning)
Current FIRLT projects:
» Alienation and engagement in undergraduate (first year) Health Sciences studies
Prof J Bezuidenhout; Dr A Louw, Prof B Page, Prof B van Heerden, Ms M van Heusden, Prof E Wasserman, Prof M de Villiers
» Alienation and Engagement in Postgraduate Pathology
Prof J Bezuidenhout, Dr F Cilliers, Prof E Wasserman, V Burch (UCT), MHP van Heusden
» Evaluation of existing short course - "Undergraduate clinical supervision"
Sr Elize Archer, MHP van Heusden
» The use of simulated patient scenarios to teach and learn basic clinical skills
Sr Elize Archer, Adele de Villiers
» Phase I: Perspectives of first year students about foundation phase of the revised curricula of certain undergraduate programmes of the Faculty of Health Sciences: Implementing date 2008.
Dr AJN Louw, J Bezuidenhout, BB van Heerden, M van Heusden
» A comparison between the perspectives of students and lecturers of Phase II on the revised curriculum (implementation date 2008) and the previous curriculum of the MB, Ch B programme of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Dr AJN Louw
» Extra-curricular leadership involvement of University of Stellenbosch Health Sciences students
Louise Walker (MB, ChB VI), Prof BB van Heerden, M van Heusden
» The implementation of a mobile learning module to improve the teaching and learning of undergraduate MB, ChB students in rural primary health care settings on the Ukwanda platform (Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University)
Prof Hoffie Conradie, Dr JP Bosman, Prof BB van Heerden, Mrs MHP van Heusden
» Using clinical follow-up visits to inform teaching and learning practices in the Clinical Skills Centre – An Action
Estelle Smuts (Clinical Skills Centre), E Archer, A de Villiers
» Short Course in Undergraduate Clinical Supervision: The effect on personal and professional growth in both supervisors and students.
Ms AMS Schmutz (Physiotherapy) Sr E Archer, Mr M van Heusden
» Evaluating the impact of using the PowerLab® LabTutor® System to teach the Spirometry to medical students.
Dr Stefan du Plessis (Physiology), Prof JG Strijdom (Physiology), Sr E Archer (CSC), Prof BB van Heerden (CHSE), Ms MHP van Heusden (CHSE)
» The Influence of Concept Maps on Learning and Evaluation in Post-Graduate Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
Dr Steve Walsh (Senior Specialist, Department of Medicine), Prof Ben van Heerden (Director – CHSE), Mrs Martie Van Heusden (CHSE)
» The influence of a service-learning curriculum design on the perception of students with regard to mental health in the Psychiatry module of the Middle Clinical Rotation in the MB, ChB programme of the Faculty of Health Sciences, SU
Dr Stefanus Snyman (CHSE), Dr Antoinette Smith-Tolken
» Evaluation of contributing factors to the lack of progress in the consecutive Phase(s) of the MB,ChB/BSc Physiotherapy programmes of students who completed the Extended Degree programme.
AJN Louw, A Bawoodien, G Young, L Crous
» Enhancing motivation and learning of EDP (Extended Degree Programme) students by introducing a Service Learning (SL) component in a first year module.
A de Villiers, AJN Louw, MHP van Heusden
Teaching grants:
» Evaluation of the Clinical Progress Intervention for medical students not demonstrating academic progress
Prof MR de Villiers, Ms Martie van Heusden, Prof Ben van Heerden
Other:
» Predicting student performance in the first year of a medical curriculum using neural network analysis
Prof B van Heerden, Chris Aldrich, Alten du Plessis, Hannie Menkveld, Gorden Jemwa, Rita de Jager, Alwyn Louw and Martie van Heusden (Faculties of Health Sciences and Engineering), Academic Support Services and Information Technology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
» Evaluation of generic skills in first year medical students
Prof BB van Heerden, Prof MR de Villiers (SU), Dr AJN Louw (SU), Prof E Kwizera (Walter Sisulu University), Dr J Van Wyk (UKZN), Prof Debbie Murdoch-Eaton (University of Leeds, UK).
» A comparison between self reported and real skills of MB ChB III students with regard to basic clinical skills
Sr Elize Archer, Adele de Villiers
» Investigating the impact of the revised Practical Clinical Exposure 198 in the first year of the Extended Degree Programme on the knowledge, attitude and skills of the students with regard to their studies in Health Sciences.
Dr AJN Louw, MHP van Heusden
» Identification of reasons leading to students being unsuccessful in their final MB, ChB examinations in 2008.
Dr Aziza Bawoodien, Prof BB van Heerden, Mrs MHP van Heusden
» An investigation into the perspectives of first year Health Sciences students (first language speakers of Afrikaans and African languages) on the usefulness of the language assistance provided in the Module: Chemistry in Health Sciences
AJN Louw, M van Heusden, M de Villiers
» The development, implementation and evaluation of a short course in Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) skills
A de Villiers, E Archer
» Does a structured Dermatology surgical skills workshop make a difference to student learning?
A de Villiers, Dr W Visser, E Smuts
