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AJHPE
African Journal of Health Professions Education

June 2011, Vol. 3 No. 1

EDITOR

VANESSA BURCH

DEPUTY EDITOR

JUANITA BEZUIDENHOUT

EDITORIAL BOARD

ADRI BEYLEFELD, University of 

the free state

JUANITA BEZUIDENHOUT,  

stellenbosch University

VANESSA BURCH,  University of 

cape town

ENOCH N KWIZERA,  

walter sisUlU University

PATRICIA MCINERNEY, University 

of the witwatersrand

JACQUELINE VAN WYK,  

University of KwaZUlU-natal

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Contents
EDITORIAL

Setting standards in health sciences education – a wake-up call
Scarpa Schoeman

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ARTICLES
Discourse of final-year medical students during  

clinical case representations
H Botha, GI van Schalkwyk, J Bezuidenhout, SC van Schalkwyk

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Identifying strategies to improve research publication output in  

health and rehabilitation sciences: a review of the literature
JM Frantz, SL Amosun

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Effects on quality of care and health care worker satisfaction of 

language training for health care workers in South Africa
Michael E Levin

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Challenges and opportunities related to postgraduate evidence-based 

practice module using blended learning
JM Frantz, S Himalowa, W Karuguti, A Kumurenzi, D Mulenga, M Sakala

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Towards understanding the quantitative literacy demands of a  

first-year medical curriculum
Vera Frith, Geney Gunston

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ABSTRACTS
Southern African FAIMER Regional Institute (SAFRI) Poster Day, 

Cape Town, March 2011 and SA Association of Health Educationalists 
(SAAHE) Conference, Johannesburg, July 2010

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