CEU Health is the Continuing Education Unit for the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Health Sciences
We facilitate short courses, seminars and workshops offered by the various departments in the Faculty primarily for the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of healthcare professionals. Our aim is to continually introduce new courses that will cover relevant and topical issues in the medical and health sciences field.
Details on all courses offered will be available on the website and is updated on a regular basis.
Mental Health Care courses
Comprehensive HIV Testing
Upcoming courses
Argue Better! Ethical Reasoning for Health Professionals
Introduction to Health Care for Adolescents
Community Based Inclusive Development Practice
Introduction to Death Scene Investigations & Fingerprinting
Comprehensive HIV Testing
Trans-Oesophagel Echocardiography
Understanding End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and Dialysis
Introduction to Palliative Care
Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access Course
Excellence in Deceased Donation and End-of-Life Care Course
What others say
Feedback from our course participants:
Introduction to Healthcare for Adolescents testimonial
"Exceeded all expectations. Great balance of topics with lots of learning, thinking, reflection. Well designed and well run. Much appreciated!! – Senior Family Physician"
- Introduction to Healthcare for Adolescents, 2024 Dept of Paediatrics
Basic Counselling Skills testimonial
"Excellent facilitators with clear passion and knowledge from working on the ground, which is invaluable."
- Basic Counselling Skills, 2024 Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Argue Better! Ethical Reasoning for Health Practitioners testimonial
"It was a great course! Heidi was such a joy and made the course so easy to understand and presented it very well!"
- Argue Better! Ethical Reasoning for Health Practitioners, 2024, The Ethics Lab
Management of Skin Disorders in Primary Care testimonial
"Excellent teaching! Ward rounds, OPD sessions and tutorials were wonderful!"
- Management of Skin Disorders in Primary Care, 2023; Dept of Dermatology
Basic Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography testimonial
Excellent Course; good hands-on experience. I loved the expertise the examiners had and the insight they provide. The use of different ultrasound machines helped with adjusting to different machine models
- Basic Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography, 2023; Dept of Anaesthesia
Disaster Medicine testimonial
Overall a valuable and well organised experience that is definitely going to be useful in my career moving forward.
- Disaster Medicine, 2023; Dept of Emergency Medicine
