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ArticleMedical humanities2018

Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa.

Michelle Pentecost, Berna Gerber, Megan Wainwright, Thomas Cousins

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Article in Medical humanities, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. South African Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology students' experiences of academic and clinical curriculum transformation.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2025
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  5. A call for linguistic and culturally congruent family-centred early hearing detection and intervention programmes in South Africa.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Michelle PentecostDepartment of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-6533
Berna GerberDivision of Speech, Language and Hearing Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
Megan WainwrightDivision of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Thomas CousinsInstitute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, the authors make a case for the 'humanisation' and 'decolonisation' of health sciences curricula in South Africa, using

Indexed as

CurriculumEducation, Medical, UndergraduateHumanitiesInterdisciplinary CommunicationAttitude of Health PersonnelDelivery of Health CareEmpathyHealth OccupationsHistoryHumansPersonhoodPhilosophy, MedicalPhysiciansPoliticsSocial EnvironmentSocial Justicehealth care educationmedical anthropologymedical humanitiesphilosophy of medicine/health care

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PMID30482814
PMCPMC6288686

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