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Juanita Bezuidenhout
Department of
Stellenbosch Univesity
jbez@sun.ac.za
Background:
In South Africa, universities are tasked with training all enrolled
candidates, while examinations are conducted by both universities and
a national College of Pathologists (COP). Successful completion of either
permits registration as a pathologist with the Health Professions Council
South Africa. This results in real and perceived inconsistencies between
training programmes, while assessment alignment has never been standardised.
The need to establish a national training and assessment framework is
apparent. The first step in this process is to conduct a needs assessment
survey of required outcomes/competencies.
Methods:
The Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons’
competency framework CanMEDS), was used to conduct an electronic, 6-point
Likert scale needs-assessment survey of all pathologists and pathologists-in-training.
Conclusions:
All CanMEDS roles were regarded as at least somewhat important
by the majority of respondents. At the annual national Federation of
South African Societies of Pathology conference the development of a
national framework based on the CANMeds model was unanimously accepted
by the Federation and the COP. The needs assessment survey paves the
way to develop a standardised uniformly accepted model of training and
assessment of pathologists. The CanMEDS roles are all important and
should be included in any framework that is developed in South Africa.
It can also be used standardising other postgraduate training programmes
in South Africa.
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