EDITORIAL 2 Professionalising health professions education V Burch, J Norcini SHORT RESEARCH REPORT 3 Expectations and experiences of final-year medical students regarding family medicine rural rotations: Influence on intention to practise in a rural setting N Beckett, R Delport RESEARCH 6 Medical students’ reflections on the meaning of disease and illness in South African communities F C J Stevens, S Naidoo, M Taylor, S Knight 12 Students’ views on the need for hostile environment awareness training for South African emergency medical care students C Vincent-Lambert, R Westwood 16 Physiotherapists’ perception of a community-based primary healthcare clinical education approach to undergraduate learning S Blose, N C T Chemane, V Chetty, P Govender, S Maddocks 22 Preparation of nursing students for operating room exposure: A South African perspective S Breedt, M J Labuschagne 27 Initiating curriculum mapping on the web-based, interactive learning opportunities, objectives and outcome platform (LOOOP) I Treadwell, O Ahlers, G C Botha CPD questionnaire AJHPE African Journal of Health Professions Education March 2019, Vol. 11, No. 1 AJHPE is published by the South African Medical Association HEAD OFFICE: Block F, Castle Walk Corporate Park, Nossob Street, Erasmuskloof Ext. 3, Pretoria, 0181 EDITORIAL OFFICE: Suite 11, Lonsdale Building, Lonsdale Way, Pinelands, 7405. Tel. 021 532 1281 Please submit letters and articles for publication online at www.ajhpe.org.za EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Vanessa Burch University of Cape Town INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS Michelle McLean Bond University, QL, Australia Deborah Murdoch-Eaton Sheffield University, UK DEPUTY EDITORS Jose Frantz University of the Western Cape Jacqueline van Wyk University of KwaZulu-Natal ASSOCIATE EDITORS Francois Cilliers University of Cape Town Rhena Delport University of Pretoria Patricia McInerney University of the Witwatersrand Ntombifikile Mtshali University of KwaZulu-Natal Anthea Rhoda University of the Western Cape Michael Rowe University of the Western Cape Marietjie van Rooyen University of Pretoria Susan van Schalkwyk Stellenbosch University Elizabeth Wolvaardt University of Pretoria GENERAL MANAGER Dr Manivasan Thandrayen EXECUTIVE EDITOR Bridget Farham HEAD OF PUBLISHING Diane Smith I Tel. 012 481 2069 Email: dianes@hmpg.co.za MANAGING EDITORS Claudia Naidu Naadia van der Bergh TECHNICAL EDITORS Emma Buchanan Kirsten Morreira Paula van der Bijl PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION OFFICER Emma Jane Couzens SENIOR DESIGNER Clinton Griffin ONLINE SUPPORT Gertrude Fani Email: publishing@hmpg.co.za ISSN 2078-5127