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A comparative analysis of the impact of online, blended, and face-to-face learning on medical students ’ clinical competency in the affective, cognitive, and psychomotor domains
The Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in South Africa compelled medical schools to switch to a purely online curriculum. The innovative changes transformed the standard clinical skills curriculum to...
Source: BMC Medical Education - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: L. C. Enoch, R. M. Abraham and V. S. Singaram Tags: Research Source Type: research
Call for Urgent Action by 275 World Leaders on Global Education Emergency In Face of Covid19
Credit: UNICEF Mali / DickoBy External SourceNEW YORK, Aug 18 2020 (IPS) We write to call for urgent action to address the global education emergency triggered by COVID-19. With over 1 billion children still out of school because of the lockdown, there is now a real and present danger that the public health crisis will create a COVID generation who lose out on schooling and whose opportunities are permanently damaged. While the more fortunate have had access to alternatives, the world’s poorest children have been locked out of learning, denied internet access, and with the loss of free school meals – once a lifelin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Economy & Trade Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
Call to Invest ‘Serious Resources’ in Education, to Stem Tide of Child Labour
Significant investments from the international community will be needed to get free quality education for every child. Credit: Cecilia Russell/IPS
By Cecilia RussellDurban, May 17 2022 (IPS) “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to eliminate child labour.” So said Dennis Sinyolo, Director of Education International’s African Regional Office in Accra, Ghana adapting liberation icon and late South African president Nelson Mandela’s famous quote about how education can change the world.
Sinyolo was participating in a themed discussion on education at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cecilia Russell Tags: Africa Child Labour COVID-19 Development & Aid Education Featured Global Headlines Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Education Post-COVID-19: Customised Blended Learning is Urgently Needed
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Africa Education Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Coronavirus Source Type: news
South Africa: Pandemic Had an Impact on Learning in Schools - Education Minister
[SAnews.gov.za] Department of Basic Education (DBE) Minister Angie Motshekga says learning losses - or losses in schooling hours - as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic seriously affected the reading literacy levels of learners in South Africa.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 19, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Children and Youth Coronavirus Education Governance Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Comorbidity in context: Part 1. Medical considerations around HIV and tuberculosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.
Authors: Rossouw TM, Boswell MT, Nienaber AG, Moodley K
Abstract
Infectious diseases pandemics have devastating health, social and economic consequences, especially in developing countries such as South Africa. Scarce medical resources must often be rationed effectively to contain the disease outbreak. In the case of COVID-19, even the best-resourced countries will have inadequate intensive care facilities for the large number of patients needing admission and ventilation. The scarcity of medical resources creates the need for national governments to establish admission criteria that are evidence-based and fair. Qu...
Source: South African Medical Journal - September 6, 2020 Category: African Health Tags: S Afr Med J Source Type: research
B.1.1.529 Covid variant ‘most worrying we’ve seen’, says top UK medical adviser
Dr Susan Hopkins says R value of variant first found in Gauteng, South Africa, is now 2Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe chief medical adviser to the UK Health and Security Agency has warned thata newly identified Covid-19 variant in southern Africa is the “most worrying we’ve seen”, with transmission levels not recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.Dr Susan Hopkins said the R value, or effective reproduction number, ofthe B.1.1.529 variant in Gauteng in South Africa, where it was first found, was now 2. For an R of anything above 1,an epidemic will grow exponentially.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 26, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Haroon Siddique Tags: Coronavirus South Africa UK news Infectious diseases Medical research World news Science Source Type: news
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 11146: Navigating through COVID-19 Pandemic Period in Implementing Quality Teaching and Learning for Higher Education Programmes: A Document Analysis Study
Conclusions: The study has evaluated the support for quality higher education teaching and learning during the pandemic period in South Africa. The study, therefore, recommends the continuing of online teaching as part of blended learning so that institutions could always be ready should situations like this occurs again in the future and above be in sync with digital transformation.
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 5, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Charity Ngoatle Tebogo M. Mothiba Modikana A. Ngoepe Tags: Review Source Type: research
Education in emergencies: Lessons from COVID-19 in South Africa
Int Rev Educ. 2021 May 28:1-17. doi: 10.1007/s11159-021-09903-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOn 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization upgraded the outbreak of COVID-19 to pandemic status. On 15 March 2020, the South African president declared a national state of disaster under the Disaster Management Act of 2002. On 26 March 2020, national lockdown, which included measures stipulated in guidelines for education in emergencies, was implemented in South Africa. The presidential declaration and subsequent lockdown came at a time when some of the universities in South Africa were already struggling either to commence ...
Source: Rural Remote Health - June 2, 2021 Category: Rural Health Authors: Nhlanhla Landa Sindiso Zhou Newlin Marongwe Source Type: research
Spanish PM seeks final extension to state of emergency – as it happened
US sends Brazil 2m doses of hydroxychloroquine, despite safety fears;pressure builds on South African president. This blog is now closed please follow our continuing live coverage belowCoronavirus live coverage12.37amBSTWe are closing this blog now but you can stay up to date on all of our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at our new global blog below.https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/01/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-passes-500000-covid-19-cases-as-india-extends-lockdown-in-high-risk-zones12.10amBSTThat ’s all from me,Clea Skopeliti, for today. Many thanks to everyone who wrote in. I ’m handing ove...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 31, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Clea Skopeliti (now), Caroline Davies, Ben Quinn and Helen Sullivan (earlier) Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news US news UK news Australia news Science Infectious diseases Brazil Russia China Americas Asia Pacific Medical research Europe Microbiology Africa Middle East and North Africa Source Type: news
UN Special Session on COVID-19 Must Recognize Right to Health & Access to Vaccines
A healthcare worker at a testing facility collects samples for the coronavirus at Mimar Sinan State Hospital, Buyukcekmece district in Istanbul, Turkey. Credit: UNDP Turkey/Levent KuluBy Riccardo PetrellaBRUSSELS, Nov 30 2020 (IPS) The holding of this Special Session (the 37th in the history of the UN) is of considerable importance. It is a unique opportunity to define and implement joint actions at the global level to fight the pandemic in order to ensure the right to life and health for all the inhabitants of the Earth. As the President of the UN General Assembly wrote in his letter of convocation: “Let us not forg...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Riccardo Petrella Tags: Development & Aid Education Featured Global Globalisation Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Health information and education needs for youth with complex communication needs during the Covid-19 pandemic: rehabilitation professionals' perspectives
CONCLUSIONS: The results confirmed that there is an urgent need to make accessible health information available in order to include South Africans with CCN in health services during the pandemic and beyond. Implications for rehabilitationHealth information and education (including information and education provided with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic) has often not been accessible to youth with complex communication needs (CCN).South African rehabilitation professionals reported on a variety of challenges that youth with CCN face when attempting to access health information and education, but also reported on strategies ...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - May 4, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Kerstin Monika T önsing Shakila Dada Kirsty Bastable Alecia Samuels Source Type: research
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect routine health services in 2021 in a number of areas. There are signs of recovery to 2019 levels in some of the health indicators. However, the impact indicators of maternal and neonatal mortality continued to worsen in 2021, and if interventions are not urgently implemented, the country is unlikely to meet the Sustainable Development Goals targets.PMID:36537548 | DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2022.v113i1.16619
Source: South African Medical Journal - December 20, 2022 Category: African Health Authors: Y Pillay H Museriri P Barron T Zondi Source Type: research
