Supervision in healthcare settings is complex. It involves dealing with the many challenges of balancing service commitment with teaching of trainees and medical students at varying levels. The course offers a range of teaching strategies to manage and overcome challenges supervisors face in a complex healthcare setting. These strategies include, planning for learning, differentiated instructions for multi-level groups, and using effective teaching techniques such as questioning. It also provides opportunities to consider some of the cultural aspects of healthcare settings which impact on learning, including the hidden curriculum, tribalism and the need for effective role modelling.
If you do not have an enrolment key, please e-mail digital.learning@racp.edu.au.
Format: The course will run for 5 weeks. In each week, a series of videos is presented, which provide topics for discussion. A range of discussion activities, questions, quizzes, polls and role plays are presented. The discussion activities are supported by a team of moderators and a facilitator. The course will be available between 29 April and 2 June.
Modules
- Orientation
- Challenges facing educators in healthcare settings
- Strategies for teaching in a complex environment
- Confronting underlying and system issues - the environment
- Confronting underlying and system issues - the adverse event
Learning outcomes
By completing this course you should be able to:
- Outline the challenges supervisors face in the healthcare setting.
- Discuss the strategies supervisors can use to maximise teaching opportunities.
- Evaluate personal attitudes, beliefs and behaviours and their influence on supervisory practice.
- Assess workplace culture issues that can affect education experiences.