The main focus areas of the CHPE are:

• Improving Health Professions Education in South Africa and Beyond-this we achieve through local and international postgraduate training and research, workshops and seminars.
• Creating a more responsive higher-education system by helping with the identification, design and development of qualifications and programmes in health sciences.
• Educating students for the challenges of the 21st century, through interprofessional learning, work-integrated learning, service learning and team-based learning with a self-directed learning focus.
• Improving student engagement in learning by designing and developing active learning pedagogies and interprofessional learning.
• Promoting innovative teaching and learning design by developing and empowering the faculty to investigate, implement and evaluate new forms of teaching and learning that talk to the 21st-century student.
• Encourage the professional development of lecturers to become experts in teaching and learning, especially in blended learning, using interactive e-learning platforms. A teaching and learning mentorship programme is also part of the focused professional development opportunities presented by the CHPE

Although the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research is central to research at the CHPE, our research activities are driven by the specific niche of the individual academics. Prof Jessica Pool focuses on SoTL, mentorship and the academic as professional university lecturer. Prof Heymans explores the area of teaching and learning methods in higher education, specifically, team-based learning and eLearning. Whereas Prof Christmals engages in research on clinical education, health professions education and human resources for health policy.