Browsing Research Articles (School of Pharmacy) by Author "Bheekie, Angeni"
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An assessment of social accountability among South African pharmacy schools from public domain information
Bheekie, Angeni; Van Huyssteen, Mea (AFAHPER-SD, 2017)Global health education reform requires training institutions to align their education, service and research activities with the values of social accountability, which include relevance, equity, quality and effectiveness. ... -
Comparative evaluation of pharmacy students’ knowledge and skills in maternal and child health: Traditional versus integrated curriculum
Egieyeh, Elizabeth Oyebola; Bheekie, Angeni; van Huyssteen, Mea (MDPI, 2022): Reducing maternal and child mortality is a health priority in South Africa. Therefore, health professional education should produce graduates that can meet these needs. This study compared the maternal and child health ... -
Continuous professional development for public sector pharmacists in South Africa: A case study of mapping competencies in a pharmacists’ preceptor programme
van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni; Srinivas, Sunitha C (MPDI, 2020)Lifelong learning among healthcare practitioners is crucial to keep abreast of advances in therapeutic and service delivery approaches. In South Africa, continuous professional development (CPD) was mandated (2019) for ... -
Development and implementation of an integrated framework for undergraduate pharmacy training in maternal and child health at a South African university
Egieyeh, Elizabeth Oyebola; Bheekie, Angeni; van Huyssteen, Mea (MPDI, 2021)The South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) regulates undergraduate pharmacy education and pharmacy practice. The SAPC Good Pharmacy Practice manual describes the role of pharmacists in maternal and child health (MCH) in ... -
The effectiveness of using text and pictograms on oral rehydration, dry-mixture sachet labels
Heyns, Jeanne; van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni (AOSIS, 2021)Medication labels are often the only information available to patients after obtaining medication from a healthcare practitioner. Pictograms are graphic symbols that have shown to increase understanding of medicine use ... -
Exploring practising pharmacy graduates’ views on improving the effectiveness of pharmacy education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni (HEALTH & MEDICAL PUBLISHING GROUP, 2019)South African health professional education institutions have a mandate to produce graduates who are able to address priority needs of the healthcare system and larger society. However, evidence of the effective use of ... -
Exploring the implications of a needs-based pharmacy education framework modelled on population health: Perspective from a developing country
Bheekie, Angeni; Van Huyssteen, Mea; Coetzee, Renier (MDPI, 2019)Globally, health education reform is directing efforts to strengthen the health system through collaboration between health education and health services. However, collaborative efforts vary between developed and developing ... -
The hidden curriculum of work-based learning for pharmacy students in public sector pharmacies in South Africa
Van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni (International Pharmaceutical Federation, 2017)BACKGROUND: The work-based learning environment encompasses a dynamic space where the implementation of theoretical knowledge and skills may prove to be at odds with routine service delivery practices, known as the ... -
“I just kept quiet”: Exploring equity in a service-learning programme
Bheekie, Angeni; Van Huyssteen, Mea; Rae, Nicolette; Swartbooi, Cindy (International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), 2016)Social justice underpins the sustainable development goal of health for all. In developing countries, social injustices are particularly severe and widespread, demanding critical and immediate attention. This article describes ... -
Medicine Runners: A community-initiated solution to chronic medicine access in underserved communities
Boswell, Dominique; Conradie, Sharon; Keshave, Bindia; Khan, Tasneem; Mngadi, Sinegugu; Tebeile, Lefa; Van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni; Kiewiets, Damaris (Medpharm, 2018)Patient access to chronic medicines is crucial in optimising disease management. With the introduction of a decentralised chronic dispensing unit, stable patients qualify to have access to their chronic medicines away ... -
Preceptor reflections on the Community Health clinical rotation for fourth year pharmacy students at the University of the Western Cape
van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni; Coetzee, Renier (2019)This paper describes the community health clinic rotation of the Patient Care Experience programme (PaCE) offered to fourth year pharmacy students (2018) at the University of the Western Cape. Reflections from the collective ... -
Re-engineering of South Africa’s primary health care system: where is the pharmacist?
Bheekie, Angeni; Bradley, Hazel A. (South African Academy of Family Physicians, 2016)South Africa’s transition towards a district-based health system (DHS) aims to offer health promotion and prevention services at community level, through re-engineered primary health care (PHC) services. Along with pharmacy ... -
Service learning in pharmacy: Opportunities for student learning and service delivery
Bheekie, Angeni; Obikeze, Kenechukwu; Bapoo, Rafik; Ebrahim, Naushaad (Academic Journals, 2011)High patient load and understaffing in public health care facilities preclude the provision of optimal pharmaceutical services in South Africa. A Service Learning in Pharmacy (SLIP) programme for the University of the ... -
What if students could be transformational resources for pharmacy practice?
Coetzee, Renier; Bheekie, Angeni; Van Huyssteen, Mea (Medpharm Publications, 2017)The pharmacists’ role in the healthcare system is expanding internationally beyond the traditional roles of compounding and medicine supply management, to providing patientcentred care and updating health care workers ...