Anthea Hansen

Biographic Data

ID8648364
NAMEAnthea Hansen
GIVEN NAMESAnthea
FAMILY NAMEHansen
SIGNATUREHANSEN A
AFFILIATIONSStellenbosch University
ORCID0000-0001-9195-8086
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Functions, challenges and opportunities of health professions education units in Africa

    Open AccessSarah B Welch, Anthea Hansen et al.ARTICLEBMC Medical Education2026

    BACKGROUND: Teaching in Health Professions Education (HPE) is complex, with educators balancing teaching, clinical, and scholarly responsibilities. Medical, nursing, and other health professional schools have created units to move HPE forward. However, little is known about how these units have evolved over the past 15 years. This study explored the landscape of HPE units in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa, their evolution, functions, chall…

  • Ai

    Open AccessS Titus, Rhoda Meyer et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026

    Through a lighthearted look at AI in healthcare, its challenges, ethics, and relation to the human touch, this paper explores how AI can augment, not replace, health professionals. #MedEducUnleashed #AIinHealthcare

  • Exploring medical teacher identity amongst faculty at a Kenyan medical school

    Florence M Mwendwa, Anthea Hansen et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2026

    INTRODUCTION: Medical teacher identity is increasingly recognised as important for teaching excellence, professional engagement and career satisfaction. However, most research in this area comes from the Global North and may not fully reflect what it means to be a medical teacher in other contexts. In many Global South settings, differences in healthcare systems, resource constraints, cultural expectations and educational structures, are likely t…

  • Final‐year students' perspectives on socially responsive curricula in medical education

    Open AccessAnthea Hansen, Susan van Schalkwyk et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026

    INTRODUCTION: There is urgency for health professionals to be better prepared to tackle health inequities. Transitioning to responsive and contextually relevant curricula is an important strategy to equip students to be both clinically competent and critically conscious of the contexts in which they provide health care. Although the literature suggests reframing medical education to be responsive, student engagement in this process remains limite…

  • When I say … social responsiveness

    Open AccessAnthea Hansen, Susan van Schalkwyk et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2025

    Hansen et al. grapple with the term "socially responsiveness" to contend that HPE should prioritize questioning the causes of health inequity with a view to transforming systems into socially just spaces

  • Medical teachers’ identity learning during major curriculum renewal

    Open AccessMariette Volschenk, Anthea HansenARTICLEMedical Teacher2025

    PURPOSE: To explore how medical teachers navigate their professional identities when required to implement critical pedagogy during an undergraduate curriculum renewal initiative. METHODS: A qualitative exploratory study was conducted, using focus groups and individual interviews with twenty-six purposively selected undergraduate medical teachers at a South African university. Data were transcribed, coded, and thematically analysed. Concepts of L…