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Accreditation number: MDB001/007/01/2011 (Clinical)

    CPD

20         December 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2  AJHPE

    CPD
December 2011

1.  True (A) or false (B):
Thirty-two per cent of female 4th-year medical students reported having 
the perception that they were not taken seriously by their patients because 
they were female.

2. True (A) or false (B):
Ninety per cent of female 4th-year medical students felt that there was a 
difference in how they were viewed as professional due to their gender.

3. True (A) or false (B):
A 4th-year female medical student was asked to step down from assisting 
a caesarean section in favour of a male student. 

4. True (A) or false (B):
With regard to statistician consultations, research protocol development 
consultations represented 35% of consultations.

5. True (A) or false (B):
With regard to statistician consultations, 10% of consultees were from 
psychiatry.

6. True (A) or false (B):
Problems with biomedical research included that the necessary materials 
are shipped cold or frozen from abroad, and would perish.

7. True (A) or false (B):
Forty per cent of African students reside out of their country of origin.

8. True (A) or false (B):
In 2004 it was estimated that in Africa (except South Africa) there were 
200 researchers of any field per million population.

9. True (A) or false (B):
The student pathways study shows very few of the students who leave 
their institutions prematurely do so because they cannot afford to stay. 

10. True (A) or false (B):
A national survey on HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among students at South 
African universities showed 3.4% positivity.  

11. True (A) or false (B):
Injuries due to violence are the second leading cause of death in South 
Africa.  

12. True (A) or false (B):
Insight into the student/supervisor relationship was not improved after a 
clinical supervision course.

13. True (A) or false (B):
Participants’ motivation to attend a short course in clinical supervision 
was mainly intrinsic.

14. True (A) or false (B):
The interprofessional nature of a clinical supervision course was refresh-
ing.

15. True (A) or false (B):
Medical laboratory technologists with a diploma could be skilled up for 
higher roles in biomedical sciences in Uganda through the introduction 
of a bridging postgraduate diploma programme in medical laboratory sci-
ences. 

16. True (A) or false (B):
Thirty-two participants wanted a full-time bridging programme in medi-
cal laboratory sciences. 

17. True (A) or false (B):
Staffing the healthcare laboratories with highly qualified personnel 
would result in the creation of appropriate technologies suited to Ugan-
da’s needs.

18. True (A) or false (B):
The Theory of Assisted Performance is a teaching approach that can be 
used to structure learning activities that help students develop complex 
reasoning skills.

19. True (A) or false (B):
Teaching and learning activities using emerging online technologies like 
social networks need to be implemented within a pedagogical framework 
that allows the facilitator to guide student development.

20. True (A) or false (B):
Teaching and learning activities using emerging online technologies can 
also be beneficial in exposing and exploring the deeper, hidden under-
standings of the culture within professions.