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The research supervisory role is becoming increasingly complex due to issues such as diversity of students; mismatched expectations between the student, supervisor and higher education institution and shorter and specific time-bound research outcomes. The current postgraduate research supervision culture and supervision practices should change. Moving towards person-centered research supervision practices may enhance the research environment, as healthful relationships between supervisors and postgraduate students may lead to increased postgraduate research outcomes. Using a World Café, we critically reflected on our existing research supervision practices. All healthcare educators involved in postgraduate research supervision were purposively selected to participate. During the café, we explored and shared ideas in a safe space. Twelve tips emerged, which can be implemented to move existing supervision practices towards person-centered research supervision practices. We present these twelve tips from the perspective of the four constructs of person-centeredness as outlined by McCormack and McCance -pre-requisites, environment, process, and outcomes. The use of these tips may enable both supervisors and students to flourish. Avoiding routine, ritual supervision practices and embracing personcentredness, will enable supervisors to form healthful relationships and put the postgraduate student at the heart of our supervision practices.

Death is a medical occurrence that has social, legal, religious and cultural consequences requiring common clinical standards for its diagnosis and legal regulation. [1] There is no documented case of a person who fulfils the preconditions and criteria for brain death ever subsequently developing any return of brain function. [2,3] Clear medical standards for death certification augment the quality and rigor of death determination. [4][5][6] Currently there are no clinical guidelines on death determination in South Africa (SA), with clinicians using available international guidelines, which vary markedly and are not always applicable to the SA context. [7][8][9][10] The World Federation This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.

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