Plenary talks, seminars and workshops



Plenary Speakers



  • PLENARY: Keynote address
  • PLENARY: The role of the family physician in responding to Emerging and Re-emerging Communicable Diseases
  • PLENARY: Voluntary vulnerability [KM SEEDAT LECTURE]
  • PLENARY: Primary HPV screening in cervical cancer – a paradigm shift [JC COETZEE MEMORIAL LECTURE]
  • PLENARY: What can the HIV PEPFAR funding crisis teach us about primary care?
  • PLENARY: Primary Health Care as the foundation for National Health Insurance
  • PLENARY: Changing landscape of medical specialist education in South Africa
  • PLENARY: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Teaching in Postgraduate Medical Education: From Bedside to Classroom
  • PLENARY: Panel Discussion – SAFPJ 45-year celebrations
  • PLENARY: From the President’s Desk
PLENARY: Keynote address

Dr A Motsoaledi

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PLENARY: The role of the family physician in responding to Emerging and Re-emerging Communicable Diseases

Prof Lucille Blumberg

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PLENARY: Voluntary vulnerability [KM SEEDAT LECTURE]

Prof Julia Blitz

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PLENARY: Primary HPV screening in cervical cancer – a paradigm shift [JC COETZEE MEMORIAL LECTURE]

Prof Leon Snyman

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PLENARY: What can the HIV PEPFAR funding crisis teach us about primary care?

Prof Francois Venter

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PLENARY: Primary Health Care as the foundation for National Health Insurance

Prof Nichloas Crisp

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PLENARY: Changing landscape of medical specialist education in South Africa

Prof Vanessa Burch

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PLENARY: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Teaching in Postgraduate Medical Education: From Bedside to Classroom

Prof Vanessa Burch and Prof Sumaiya Adam

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PLENARY: Panel Discussion – SAFPJ 45-year celebrations

Prof Klaus von Pressentin, Dr Mareike Rabe, Dr Simon Marcus and Dr Ramprakash Kaswa

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PLENARY: From the President’s Desk

Prof Tasleem Ras

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Seminars/Lunch Symposium



  • SEMINAR: The use of oral corticosteroids in primary care: new evidence
  • SEMINAR: The role of PoCUS in Family Medicine
  • SEMINAR: Personalised Benefits supporting Disease management, population health programs
  • LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: An Approach to Haematological Malignancies for Primary Healthcare Physicians
SEMINAR: The use of oral corticosteroids in primary care: new evidence

André Van Niekerk

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SEMINAR: The role of PoCUS in Family Medicine

Dr James Porter

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SEMINAR: Personalised Benefits supporting Disease management, population health programs

Darren Sweidan

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LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: An Approach to Haematological Malignancies for Primary Healthcare Physicians

Dr Andrew McDonald

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Workshops



  • WORKSHOP: Developing Emotional Competence as a Clinical Supervisor
  • WORKSHOP: Sim-City: Building better sims to make better doctors
  • WORKSHOP: Healthcare workers mental health in era of global change
  • WORKSHOP: Specialist Family Physicians in Private Practice
  • WORKSHOP: Developing clinical leadership towards health service strengthening – current practices and future directions
  • WORKSHOP: Disaster management plans – primary health care
  • WORKSHOP: Enhancing MCQ Construction and Examination Blueprinting in Family Medicine Using Generative AI
  • WORKSHOP: NEXT5 – Succession plan for your future
  • WORKSHOP: Elevating the Role of Specialist Family Physicians in the Private Sector
WORKSHOP: Developing Emotional Competence as a Clinical Supervisor

Dr Madeleine Muller

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WORKSHOP: Sim-City: Building better sims to make better doctors

Kaleb Lachenicht

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WORKSHOP: Healthcare workers mental health in era of global change

Dr Deidre Pretorius

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WORKSHOP: Specialist Family Physicians in Private Practice

Dr Sheena Mathew

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WORKSHOP: Developing clinical leadership towards health service strengthening – current practices and future directions

Prof Klaus von Presssentin, Prof Richard Cooke, Dr Ramprakash Kaswa, Prof Louis Jenkins and Dr Angela de Sa

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WORKSHOP: Disaster management plans – primary health care

Dr H Pitout and Dr SNL Nyalunga  

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WORKSHOP: Enhancing MCQ Construction and Examination Blueprinting in Family Medicine Using Generative AI

Prof Mergan Naidoo and Prof Louis Jenkins 

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WORKSHOP: NEXT5 – Succession plan for your future

Prof Klaus von Pressentin, Dr Chantelle van der Bijl and Dr Arun Nair

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WORKSHOP: Elevating the Role of Specialist Family Physicians in the Private Sector

Dr Gail Ashford

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Oral Presentations



  • Developing a national clinical competency committee for postgraduate family medicine training in South Africa – lessons learnt
  • Migration and primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
  • The gift you don’t want, but really need
  • Toxic leadership – A new pandemic in the South Africa public health sector
  • Implementation of the patient safety incident guidelines in district health services in Western Cape
  • Building climate resilient primary care: a multistage mixed methods study in the Cederberg Subdistrict, South Africa
  • Evaluating the core functions of primary care performance in the Amathole District, South Africa
  • The field-of-practice experiences of South African and Namibian medical practitioners who qualified outside and returned to practice in their own countries
  • Exploring Stakeholders’ Experiences on Implementing Family Medicine in Urban South Africa – Implications for Universal Health Coverage.
  • Emotional Readiness for Practice? A Qualitative Study of South African Medical Interns’ Training Experiences
  • Implementing a Community-Oriented Primary Care Approach to Substance Use Disorders at a CHC, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Medical Interns’ Experiences in Conducting QIPs During Family Medicine Rotation in the Primary Care Setting, Ekurhuleni, South Africa
  • Covid-19 Hesitancy among unvaccinated individuals in a primary care setting, Pretoria
  • Evaluation of Medical Interns’ Family Medicine Orientation Programme, Ekurhuleni Health District
  • Community Health Worker-led type 2 diabetes care in rural Lesotho: a cluster-randomized trial within the ComBaCaL cohort study
  • Profile of self-harming patients admitted in a South African hospital
  • Artificial intelligence readiness in health science education and research
  • Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into teaching, learning and research in the College of Health Sciences at UKZN- A NARRATIVE REVIEW
  • Mapping the proportion of district health entities with a family physician in South African
  • Auditing the management and outcomes of Ectopic pregnancies at a district hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa.
  • Assessment of peak flow meter and chart utilisation in asthma management at the Outpatient Department, National District Hospital, Bloemfontein, Free State Province.
  • A mixed-methods evaluation of patient referral processes between rural district hospitals and a regional hospital in two districts in South Africa
  • Assessing the effectiveness of decentralised antenatal ultrasound in a primary healthcare clinic compared with a hospital-based service in rural South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis
  • Migrants’ experiences of accessing primary care in Emfuleni Municipality, South Africa
  • Wound complications after vulvar surgery in HIV positive women treated at a teaching hospital in Johannesburg
  • Exploring clinician-leadership development for South African primary care through group coaching in a revised leadership and governance module
Developing a national clinical competency committee for postgraduate family medicine training in South Africa – lessons learnt
Migration and primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
The gift you don’t want, but really need
Toxic leadership – A new pandemic in the South Africa public health sector
Implementation of the patient safety incident guidelines in district health services in Western Cape
Building climate resilient primary care: a multistage mixed methods study in the Cederberg Subdistrict, South Africa
Evaluating the core functions of primary care performance in the Amathole District, South Africa
The field-of-practice experiences of South African and Namibian medical practitioners who qualified outside and returned to practice in their own countries
Exploring Stakeholders’ Experiences on Implementing Family Medicine in Urban South Africa – Implications for Universal Health Coverage.
Emotional Readiness for Practice? A Qualitative Study of South African Medical Interns’ Training Experiences
Implementing a Community-Oriented Primary Care Approach to Substance Use Disorders at a CHC, KwaZulu-Natal
Medical Interns’ Experiences in Conducting QIPs During Family Medicine Rotation in the Primary Care Setting, Ekurhuleni, South Africa
Covid-19 Hesitancy among unvaccinated individuals in a primary care setting, Pretoria
Evaluation of Medical Interns’ Family Medicine Orientation Programme, Ekurhuleni Health District
Community Health Worker-led type 2 diabetes care in rural Lesotho: a cluster-randomized trial within the ComBaCaL cohort study
Profile of self-harming patients admitted in a South African hospital
Artificial intelligence readiness in health science education and research
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into teaching, learning and research in the College of Health Sciences at UKZN- A NARRATIVE REVIEW
Mapping the proportion of district health entities with a family physician in South African
Auditing the management and outcomes of Ectopic pregnancies at a district hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa.
Assessment of peak flow meter and chart utilisation in asthma management at the Outpatient Department, National District Hospital, Bloemfontein, Free State Province.
A mixed-methods evaluation of patient referral processes between rural district hospitals and a regional hospital in two districts in South Africa
Assessing the effectiveness of decentralised antenatal ultrasound in a primary healthcare clinic compared with a hospital-based service in rural South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis
Migrants’ experiences of accessing primary care in Emfuleni Municipality, South Africa
Wound complications after vulvar surgery in HIV positive women treated at a teaching hospital in Johannesburg
Exploring clinician-leadership development for South African primary care through group coaching in a revised leadership and governance module

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