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          December 2018, Vol. 10, No. 4  AJHPE

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Accreditation number: MDB015/029/01/2018 (Clinical)

CPD questionnaire

December 2018

True (A) or false (B):

Improving communication in the South African healthcare context
1.    Recommendations to improve communication teaching at institutional 

level included developing the isiXhosa language. 
2.    The authors propose that students’ cultural knowledge and skills in 

intercultural communication should be included in student evaluations. 

Student-informed directives for clinical communication skills training 
in undergraduate healthcare programmes: Perspectives from a South 
African university
3.    Barriers, such as culture and language, are found to restrict the 

communication-related performance of healthcare students in the 
clinical environment. 

4.    All participants felt that language differences negatively influenced the 
effectiveness of their treatments. 

Knowledge and attitudes of undergraduate medical students with regard 
to medical research at a South African university
5.    The medical students sampled in this study generally had negative 

attitudes towards research. 
6.    The literature suggests that there has been a steady decline in the number 

of physician-scientists worldwide. 

Continuing professional development opinions and challenges 
experienced by radiographers in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
7.    The majority of participants considered continuing professional 

development (CPD) to be unimportant. 
8.    CPD funding is a major challenge for healthcare professionals worldwide. 

Mandatory continuing education for psychologists: Practitioners’ views
9.    Half of the sample of participants opposed the idea of mandatory CPD. 
10.  The three key role-players in the CPD system identified by Mulvey include 

the individual practitioner, the employer and the professional body. 

A pre-post study of behavioural determinants and practice change in 
Ugandan clinical officers
11.  ‘Provider behaviour’ is one of five domains of behaviour change that are 

the building blocks of global health. 
12.  Environmental determinants were the only change from pre- to post-

course that was statistically significantly associated with a change 
in use of the Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure 
(ABCDE) approach to treat acutely ill patients. 

Learning styles of physiotherapy students and teaching styles of their 
lecturers in undergraduate gross anatomy education
13.  Several students in this study seemed to view learning as an event that 

‘happened’ to them, rather than one that requires active participation. 
14.  Students generally perceived teaching by course lecturers to be 

inadequate. 

Teaching pharmacotherapeutics to pharmacy students at a Nigerian 
university: Student perspectives
15.  Grasha and Yangarber-Hicks summed up a learning style as ‘a student’s 

consistent way of responding and using stimuli in the context of 
learning’. 

16.  Gender has been shown to influence learning style preference.