Dr Jeanette du Plessis
Dr Du Plessis Jeanette

QUALIFICATIONS
B. Rad Hons (Radiography). Master in Higher Education, PhD Health Professions Education
SHORT CV
Jeanette du Plessis is the Head of the Department of Clinical Science where the programmes Radiography, Emergency Medical Care and the Extended Curriculum Programme for the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences (FHES) reside. During her employment at CUT she has taught in Radiography at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has supervised master’s and doctoral students. As part of her passion for education in the health professions, she acts as a mentor for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) initiative at the university and is involved in staff training as part of this initiative. She is an active member of the South African Sweden University Forum (SASUF) and has delivered papers and a workshop at this forum. Her research interests include health professions education, work-integrated learning and peer-assisted learning. She has published in accredited and non-accredited journals, and has delivered many papers at national and international conferences. She received a Thuthuka grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa (SA) for an action research project on peer-assisted learning and a TAU fellowship in 2020.  
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Diagnostic Radiography
Higher Education in Health Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
  • Du Plessis, J. 2018. Stakeholders' viewpoints on work-integrated learning practices in radiography training in South Africa: towards improvement of practice. Radiography. DOI:10.1016/j.radi. 2018.06.011
  • Sebelego, I.K, van der Merwe, B and Du Plessis, J. 2019. A radiographic criteria checklist to determine reasons for errors resulting in sub-optimal routine shoulder projections. Health SA Gesondheid. ISSN: 1025-9848, E-ISSN: 2071-9736.
  • Du Plessis, J. and Bezuidenhout, J. Areas of good practice and areas for improvement in work-integrated learning for radiography training in South Africa. African Journal of Health Professions Education. Vol 11, No 3 Sept 2019.
  • Slabbert, R. S. and Du Plessis, J. 2021. Quality assurance of peer-assisted learning by measuring academic performance of health sciences extended curriculum students. Perspectives in Education. (in press).
PRESENTED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS
  • A Work-integrated Education and Training Programme for Radiography in South Africa. ISRRT, 18th ISRRT World Conference. 12 – 15 June 2014, Helsinki, Finland.
  • The use of new teaching technologies in the delivery of work-integrated learning in radiography training. 7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. 6th - 8th July 2015, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Deliberation of student qualitative commentaries to improve work-integrated learning in a health sciences programme. IACB International Conference on Education. 2017. 4-8 June Stockholm. Sweden.
  • Peer-assisted learning to improve educational performance in radiography training. ECR 2019 – The bigger picture. 27 February – 03 March 2019. Vienna, Austria.
  • Sustainable development through community engagement. SASUF. 08 – 10 May 2019. University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch.
  • A peer-assisted learning action research project to assist at-risk students in radiography training. Röntgenveckan. 17-20 September. 2019. Jönköping, Sweden.
EXTERNAL PROFILES
ResearchGate
ORCID

Contact Us
  • Dr Du Plessis Jeanette
  • Tel: +27 (0)51 507 3138
  • duplesj@cut.ac.za