Program Overview

University of Cape Town Program Information

The University of Cape Town offers a variety of programs through its Faculty of Health Sciences. The faculty is composed of several departments and units, including academic departments, administrative departments, operational units, and the Bioethics Centre.

Faculty of Health Sciences Departments

• Academic Departments:
  • Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
  • Family, Community and Emergency Care
  • Health Sciences Education
  • Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Human Biology
  • Integrative Biomedical Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Pathology
  • Psychiatry & Mental Health
  • Public Health
  • Radiation Medicine
  • Surgery
• Administrative Departments
• Operational Units
• Bioethics Centre

Courses Offered

The university offers numerous courses, including but not limited to:

• Adolescent Health: Taking Evidence to Implementation
• Advanced Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology
• Advanced Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography
• Advanced HIV and Adherence Counselling
• Advanced Training in Complete Current Procedural Terminology for South Africa
• Advanced Training in ICD-10 Coding
• Aeromedical Evacuation and Transport
• African Genomics Short Course
• Airway & Thoracic Skills
• Applied Community Counselling
• Argue Better! Ethical Reasoning for Health Professionals
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics & Policy in Africa
• Basic Anatomy and Physiology for Clinical Coding and Case Management
• Basic Clinical Auditing
• Basic Counselling Skills
• Basic Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography
• Basic HIV Counselling
• Basic Legal & Ethical Principles in Forensic Laboratory Mortuary Practice
• Basic Training in Complete Current Procedural Terminology for South Africa
• Basic Training in ICD-10 Coding
• Basics of MRI
• Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Workshop
• Case Management Workshop
• Certificate Course in Palliative Nursing
• Community Based Inclusive Development Practice
• Comprehensive HIV Testing
• Debriefing for Simulation Education
• Disabilities, Gender-Based Violence and Inclusive Health Care
• Disability Studies in Education
• Disaster Medicine
• DNA Extraction from Hard Tissue Samples
• Endurance Running Training Essentials & Program Design
• Essentials of Nursing Children with a Tracheostomy
• Essentials of Nursing Children with a Cancer or Blood Disorder
• Essentials of Nursing Critically Sick Children
• Essentials of Nursing Sick Children
• Essentials of Nursing Sick Newborns
• Essentials of a Paediatric Clinical Assessment
• Essentials of Paediatric Burns Care
• Essential Steps in Managing Obstetric Emergencies
• Excellence in Deceased Donation and End-of-Life Care Course
• Forensic Photography
• Fundamentals of Behaviour Change
• Fundamentals of Emergency Care
• Global Surgery Foundations
• Hospital Coding and Billing
• Intermediate Training in Complete Current Procedural Terminology for South Africa
• Intermediate Training in ICD-10 Coding
• Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science
• Introduction to Death Scene Investigations & Fingerprinting
• Introduction to Diagnoses Related Groups
• Introduction to Global Surgery
• Introduction to Health Care for Adolescents
• Introduction to Palliative Care
• Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
• Introduction to Sports Nutrition
• Introduction to using NVivo for Qualitative Data Analysis & Management
• Management of Skin Disorders in Primary Care
• Masters Preparedness Course
• Medical Practitioner Billing - Reference Price List
• Palliative Care Training for the Oncologist in Africa
• Periodisation of Football Conditioning & Fitness Testing
• PhD Preparedness Course
• Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs)
• Professionalizing Disability Inclusive Practice
• Providing Healthcare for Children with Long Term and Disabling Conditions
• Psychological First Aid
• Simulation Launchpad
• Science Communication and Power Relations in Global Health
• Swimming Training Essentials and Program Design
• The Essentials of Cycling Physiology and Coaching
• The Role of Movement in Childhood Development and Health
• Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography
• Trauma-informed Practice
• Trauma Informed Research Methodologies
• Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access Course
• Understanding End Stage Renal Disease
• Understanding Forensic Odontology
• Understanding Simulation-based Education
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL): A framework for Inclusive Teaching Practice

Endurance Running Training Essentials & Program Design Course Details

Course Overview

This course is designed for the recreational to elite endurance runner, running coaches, health professionals, and students who want to learn how to design training programs to maximize performance and reduce the risk of injury.

Course Details

• Date: Self-paced distance learning
• Venue: Online (SSISA Education Hub)
• Duration: 6 hours
• Course Fee: R 1,500
• CPD Points: 6

Course Modules

1. Training principles
2. Exercise physiology related to endurance running
3. Factors related to endurance performance
4. Special issues related to endurance performance
5. Designing training programs
6. Sample training programs

Specific Learning Outcomes

• Describe the programming principles that guide conditioning for sport
• Develop training programs within a single sport for performers
• Identify and teach the appropriate exercise techniques
• Design and implement challenging conditioning programs
• Compare and contrast various approaches to sport fitness conditioning in a range of situations

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the programming principles such as overload, recovery, specificity, recovery, reversibility, and individuality.
2. Explain how a coach can apply these principles to design a fitness program that develops the different energy systems required for a specific sport.
3. Explain how these training programs incorporate the programming principles into their design.
4. Describe and analyze the effects of different levels of physical fitness on sport performance.
5. Identify and apply a variety of dynamic and static stretching techniques and explain their relevance to a specific sport.
6. Identify different types of resistance training programs and outline the relative importance of each in terms of conditioning for selected sports.
7. Outline the fitness requirements of specific sports and specific playing positions within specific sports.
8. Describe the various teaching/coaching methods for presenting sport fitness conditioning sessions.
9. Recommend methods of evaluating the success of a fitness-conditioning program.

Certificate of Attendance

A digital certificate of attendance will be issued to participants of the course.