The AJHPE is published by the Health and Medical Publishing Group.
AJHPE
African Journal of Health Professions Education
December 2009, Vol. 1 No. 1
Editor VanEssa burch
Editorial board adri bEylEfEld, universityof
the free state
Juanita bEzuidEnhout, stellenbosch University
VanEssa burch, Universityof
cape town
Enoch n KwizEra, walter sisUlU University
Patricia McinErnEy, University ofthe witwatersrand
JacquElinE Van wyK, Universityof KwaZUlU-natal
hMPG Editor Daniel J ncayiyana
Managing Editor J p De v van niekerk
deputy Editor nOnHlanHla p kHUMalO
assistant Editor eMMa BUcHanan
technical Editors MariJke Maree rOBerT MaTZDOrFF
paUla van Der BiJl
head of Publishing rOBerT arenDse Production co-ordinator
eMMa cOUZens
art director siOBHan TilleMans
dtP & design Travis arenDse clinTOn GriFFin
online Manager GerTrUDe Fani
hMPG board of directors r e kirscH (chair)
M lUkHele D J ncayiyana
M raFF a THUlare
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Does Africa need another journal?
Vanessa Burch 2
ARTICLES
A survey of nurses’ basic life support knowledge and training at a tertiary hospital
M Keenan, G Lamacraft, G Joubert 3
Integrating the primary health care approach into a medical curriculum: a programme logic model
James Irlam, Mpoe Johannah Keikelame, Lauraine Vivian 8
Correlation between different PBL assessment components and the final mark for MB ChB III at a rural South African university Mirta Erotida Garcia-Jardon, Ernesto V Blanco-Blanco, Vivek G Bhat,
Sandeep D Vasaikar, Enoch N Kwizera, Andrez Stepien 12
SHORT REPORT
Students’ perception of different teaching aids in a medical college S N Baxi, C J Shah, R D Parmar, D Parmar, C B Tripathi
15 LETTER
Information about the MPhil in Health Sciences Education at Stellenbosch University
Ben van Heerden 17
ABSTRACTS
South African Association for Health Educationalists 2008 and 2009 congresses, held in Cape Town
18 CPD25