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The South African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE) has recently elected Professor Francois Cilliers, head of the Department of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, as its president and chair of the national executive council.

In celebrating Health Sciences, the Department of Health Sciences Education (DHSE) will be hosting a conference on 03 August 2017

Mandela Day is about discovering our abilities to help one another. For this reason staff in the department put aside 67 minutes to make sandwiches and hand them out to those visiting Groote Schuur Hospital.
It was heart warming to be able to make a difference to those who have been standing in queues the whole day.

Supervisors, doctorate and masters students recently spent two productive and enriching days with Professor Michael Samuel. The structured discussions focussed on deepening our understanding of developing conceptual frameworks for writing thesis proposals, as well as the teaching and learning issues underpinning student-supervisor relationship.