The aim of SUCCEED is to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS and related services.
SUCCEED is a response to the call made by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for South African University-based technical assistance aimed at improving the quality of HIV/AIDS treatment, care and related services in South Africa under PEPFAR. SUCCEED’s purpose is, through engagement with stakeholders, to develop district health learning centres (DHLC) as centres of excellence wit
12/09/2019
Hearty congratulations to the Madwaleni team on these wonderful achievements!
Team Madwaleni representing! Clinical associate of the year and rural doctor of the year. These awards are so well deserved and we are so proud to have these two as part of our community.
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
14/09/2018
Day 2 of ILCC curriculum evaluation workshop.
14/09/2018
Day 1 of ILCC curriculum evaluation workshop
13/09/2018
3rd Student portfolio workshop.
31/08/2018
1st of 3 Portfolio Assessment workshops
29/08/2018
To view pictures of the Operational Research Training we conducted over the last three years of SUCCEED please visit our website on:
02/07/2018
3rd SUCCEED pre-conference workshop that happened on the 27th of June 2018. What a journey it has been. Thank you Gateway Hotel & Conference Center for hosting us.
15/05/2018
Biostatistics for Health Researchers: Online Short Course
4 June 2018 to 24 September 2018 for the duration of 16 weeks.
The course aimed at researchers who have no prior training or experience in biostatistics, as well as those who need a refresher. It aims to enable participants to understand
biostatistical concepts in medical literature as well as understand how to approach biostatistical methods in their own research.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants receive a certificate of attendance from Stellenbosch University.
Attendance is limited to 40 participants
For application details, contact Esther Rodrigues: [email protected] by 25 May 2018
11/05/2018
Evidence-Informed Decision making: The Art, Science and Complexity of Knowledge Translation Workshop
20-21 June 2018
RSVP as attendance is limited to 25 participants
Cost: R3000
Contact: [email protected] to secure your place
20/04/2018
Wonderful productive time for the SUCCEED team on Writing Retreat at Mont Fleur