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Enhancing Professionalism: Human Rights & Me @ the University of Cape Town
Human Rights Education has become an integral part of the curricula in the Health Sciences Faculty at the University of Cape Town. As students develop their knowledge and skills to promote respect for human rights and quality health care they learn to be advocates for social justice, valuing the link between human rights and health. However students frequently report witnessing disturbing situations in their clinical encounters where the disjuncture between the theory and practice is challenging. They find themselves faced with dissonance, uncertain how to react towards positive change.
This handout aims to promote professionalism and social accountability in health care. It offers guidance for undergraduate students in the Health Sciences to respond appropriately to human rights violations that they may witness in the workplace. It aims to assist students to critically reflect on their clinical experiences through a new spiral framework termed the Six Step Spiral for Critical Reflexivity (SSS4CR).
- Faculty: Health Sciences, Public Health and Family Medicine
- Media Types: Downloadable Documents
- Material Type: Other
- Language: English
- Level: Post-secondary
"Enhancing Professionalism: Human Rights & Me @ the University of Cape Town" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
