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Postgraduate Diploma in Community & General Paediatrics
This is a two-year part-time programme that is relevant to the National Department of Health’s re-engineering of primary health care strategy. The skills and knowledge gained are aligned with the requirements of posts for the District Clinical Specialist Teams (DCST) and for clinicians who are working within the field of community and general paediatrics. The programme can be taken by paediatricians, medical officers health and rehabilitation professionals, registered nurses and medical social workers who might not want to sub-specialise.
The purpose of the programme is to assist students in acquiring critical and reflective skills to understand, analyse and apply knowledge in the following areas: advocacy and children’s rights; child health policies and programmes; optimal management of long-term and disabling conditions (LTDCs); health management and leadership; concepts and principles of adolescent care; health information systems; mental health in children and adolescents; skills in communication with children and caregivers and adult education and training.
Programme Learning Outcomes
At the end of the programme, students should have gained the ability to identify concepts relevant to the areas identified below. Additionally, students should be capacitated to critically appraise, engage with and apply skills learned in the programme related to:
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Courses & Delivery
The courses offered in this programme in 2024 will be:
Core courses |
Credits |
Sequence |
Conveners |
Advocacy and Children’s Rights |
10 |
Year 1, Semester 1 |
Lori Lake Lucy Jamieson |
Epidemiology & Research Appraisal |
15 |
Year 1, Semester 1 |
Dave le Roux Adelaide Masu |
Child Health Policies and Programmes |
15 |
Year 1, Semester 2 |
Jawaya Shea Lizelle Jacobs |
Health Information Systems |
10 |
Year 1, Semester 2 |
Dave le Roux |
Communication, Education and Training |
10 |
Year 2, Semester 1 *elective |
Lizelle Jacobs |
Optimising Clinical Care for Long-term and Disabling Health Conditions |
10 |
Year 2, Semester 1 *elective |
Shirani Naidoo Lizelle Jacobs |
Child protection, abuse and neglect |
10 |
Year 2, Semester 1 *elective |
Sa-eeda Chippendale Rowan Dunkley |
Adolescent Health Care | 10 |
Year 2, Semester 1 *elective |
Zakira Sablay Michelle Carrihill Lizelle Jacobs |
Mental Health of Children and Adolescents | 10 |
Year 2, Semester 1 *elective |
Wendy Vogel Lizelle Jacobs |
Health Management and Leadership |
15 |
Year 2, Semester 2 |
Tamara Kerbelker Anthony Hawkridge |
Experiential learning, Part 1 |
15 | Year 1, Semester 1 |
Sa-eeda Chippendale |
Experiential learning, Part 2 |
15 | Year 2, Semester 2 |
Lizelle Jacobs |
Please note: Learners need to complete all core courses in bold, and 3 of the 5 elective courses to obtain 120 credits.
This is a blended programme which will be delivered as synchronous and asynchronous online teaching and learning sessions. A block week of online teaching will take place at the beginning of each semester in the first year, and in the second semester of the second year, and will be followed by the online components of the different courses. (The first semester of the second year will comprise of short elective courses so there will not be a block week of teaching).
Date for 2024 block week lectures:
First year: 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2024
8 - 12 July 2024
Second year: 22 - 23 Jan 2024
11 - 12 March 2024
6 - 7 May 2024
15-17 July 2024
[Note: It is possible to register for certain courses on an occasional basis subject to course convenor approval.]
The courses are divided into Units which are delivered over one to three weeks depending on the course. Each Unit consists of:
- Learning outcomes
- Course content
- Resources (core, recommended and additional readings, presentations, web links)
- Learning tasks (forum responses, chat sessions, tasks related to assignments)
- Please note: Forum discussions, chatrooms, blogs on Vula and Google Docs may be used for online engagement and interactive learning. This space should be respectful, collegial and collaborative; hence everyone is expected to contribute to building and making the space a positive learning environment.
- .Please see the 2023 student handbook (Microsoft Word - 2023_FHS_PG_handbook version for checking 11.01.23 (uct.ac.za)) for more information about the programme and courses from the Faculty of Health Sciences. (The information about the elective course will be published in the 2024 handbook)
- For support available to students at the Faculty of Health Sciences, see the "Additional support" tab on the sidebar
If you have any questions, please contact our administrator Ms. Debbie Moodie (Debbie.Moodie@uct.ac.za) or on (021) 658 5316 or the programme convenors Dr Dave le Roux (Dave.leRoux@uct.ac.za or Dr Lizelle Jacobs (Lizelle.Jacobs@uct.ac.za).
We look forward to welcoming you to the PG Diploma in Community and General Paediatrics!