Staff Profiles

Master of Medicine (Family Medicine)

Fellowship in Medical Education

On Training: PHD Public Health

Dr Stephane Tshitenge has over 20 years of practice in primary healthcare as a medical officer and as a specialist-family physician. He joined the University of Botswana in 2012; he is a Senior Lecturer, and he coordinates Family Medicine training in Mahalapye site. He is involved in teaching and assessment of 15 courses (core type) in both undergraduate and post-graduate program. He has a passion for integrating of human development paradigm in routine primary healthcare practice.  Also, as a fellow in medical education (SAFRI), he is passionate about the research of methods that implement effective continuous medical education in poor to middle in-come settings. He has so for published a dozen of peer-reviewed journal; he supervises dissertations (a dozen) and he is an external examiner of the Universite Protestante Du Congo (DR Congo). Also, he is a peer reviewer in many international journals. He is pursuing his PHD training (in Public Health) with the Texila American University.

Family Medicine:

- Undergraduate: SOM404 and SOM605

-Postgraduate: 

-Effective continuous medical education programmes in poor to middle in-come primary healthcare settings.

-Chronic Diseases in primary healthcare

-Mahalapye training site supervisor: Work-based (clinical) training 

-Human development, consultation and communication skills.

-Dissertations

-A survey of risk factors associated with hypertension in the adult population of Kang, Kgalagadi North, Botswana

-A mortality review of tuberculosis and HIV co-infected patients in Mahalapye, Botswana: Does cotrimoxazole preventive therapy and/or antiretroviral therapy protect against death?

-The execution rate of procedures to diagnose extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Botswana.

-Evaluation of problem-based learning curriculum implementation in a clerkship rotation of a newly established African medical training institution: lessons from the University of Botswana.

-The effectiveness of the South African Triage Tool use in Mahalapye District Hospital—Emergency Department, Botswana

-Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus — hepatitis B virus co-infection amongst adult patients in Mahalapye, Ngami, Serowe, Botswana: a descriptive cross-sectional study

-Knowledge, attitudes and practice of healthcare providers regarding contraceptive in adolescence.