17/08/2019
Scoping Review Best Publication announcement
The Centre for Health Professions Education, Stellenbosch University (CHPE) and Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University is proud to announce that researchers from Stellenbosch University received the 2019 Best Publication Award at the recent South African Association of Health Educationalists - SAAHE conference in Bloemfontein. This award is made annually to promote excellence in research in health professions education (HPE), as an important component of advancing the field of HPE. This award is for a peer-reviewed publication, with a South African first author, published in any journal in the preceding five years.
Congratulations to the winning team! De Villiers, M., Van Schalkwyk, S., Blitz, J., Couper, I., Moodley, K., Talib, Z., & Young, T. (2017) Decentralised training for medical students: a scoping review. BMC Medical Education, 17(1), 196. The work was done as part of Stellenbosch University Collaborative Capacity Enhancement through Engagement with Districts (Succeed) project, funded by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-017-1050-9
There is a growing body of evidence that identifies the benefits of decentralised training in HPE. This Scoping Review drew together scholarship in the field to better understand the factors that characterise approaches to decentralised training, how it has been implemented and what the outcomes were. The article shows the links between decentralised training and its benefits to students, health services, and communities. The Scoping Review is a landmark publication that for the first time brings together the science that underpins decentralised training at a local and international level as both scholarly and pragmatic concepts.
The insights from this article together with the knowledge base that it has established is informing further expansion of decentralised HPE. It has value beyond medical education, as reflected by the involvement of a spread of health professions in the subsequent work. Using the Scoping Review as a starting point, a national consultative process was initiated that resulted in a National Consensus Statement on Decentralised Training in HPE and the development of a framework for effective decentralised training.
Julia Blitz and Ian Couper accepted the award on behalf of the team.
Picture: F Cilliers (President of SAAHE), I Couper and J Blitz and H Friedrich-Nel (SAAHE conference organising committee)
Marietjie de Villiers Ukwanda Worcester Susan van Schalkwyk Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Today at Stellenbosch University Rural Health Advocacy Project Hcsmsa - Health Care Social Media South Africa CDC Global BMC
