Curriculum standards
Entrustable Professional Activities
LG3: Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Demonstrate commitment to ongoing professional development and health professions education
This activity requires the ability to:
- demonstrate commitment to health professions education opportunities
- provide effective clinical teaching in a variety of settings, including lectures, small group tutorials and simulation, drawing from evidence-based practices
- demonstrate how to conduct a learning needs analysis
- teach and role model professional skills
- create a safe and supportive learning environment
- demonstrate and implement strategies towards enhancing educational culture within the clinical workplace
- plan, deliver, and provide work-based assessments
- support learner-driven education experiences
- supervise learners in day-to-day work, and provide timely and constructive feedback
- support learners to prepare for assessments
- role model commitment to lifelong learning and continuous professional development
- reflect on and evaluate own teaching and supervision skills
Professional practice framework domain
Medical expertise
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- combine high-quality care with high-quality teaching
- undertake teaching on the run/bedside teaching, including explaining the rationale underpinning a structured approach to clinical decision making
- enable learners to observe and participate in clinical experiences with appropriate supervision, in a manner that is scaffolded and tailored towards learner’s level of training
- support and facilitate students and health professionals to reflect and learn from clinical experiences
- support learners’ strengths and areas for development and facilitate improvement
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- teach learners using basic knowledge and skills
Communication
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- establish rapport and demonstrate respect for junior colleagues, medical students, and other health professionals
- communicate effectively when teaching, assessing, and appraising learners
- provide timely, clear, and constructive feedback to learners with suggestions on how to improve
- actively encourage a collaborative and safe learning environment with learners and other health professionals
- role model and teach high level communication skills
- support learners to deliver clear, concise, and relevant information in both verbal and written communication
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- demonstrate accessible, supportive, and compassionate behaviour during teaching and supervision activities
Quality and safety
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- support learners to deliver quality care while maintaining their own wellbeing
- apply lessons learned about patient safety by identifying and discussing risks with learners
- assess learners’ competence, and provide timely feedback to minimise risks to care
- maintain the safety of patients and organisations involved with education, and appropriately identify and action concerns
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- observe learners to reduce risks and improve health outcomes
Teaching and learning
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- demonstrate commitment to own learning needs, training requirements, and professional development
- develop appropriate learning plans for required learning outcomes
- plan and submit assessments and reports within required time frames
- demonstrate knowledge of the principles, processes, and skills of supervision
- provide direct guidance to learners in day-to-day work
- work with learners to identify professional development and learning opportunities based on their individual learning needs
- participate in teaching and supervision of professional development activities
- encourage self-directed learning
- develop a consistent and fair approach to assessing learners
- tailor feedback and assessments to learners’ goals
- seek feedback and reflect on own teaching and supervision skills
- support learners to identify and attend formal and informal learning opportunities
- recognise the limits of personal expertise, and involve others appropriately
- use and promote reflective practise to develop clinical skills
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- meet with supervisors regularly to receive feedback and support
- keep records of supervision and work-based assessment
- demonstrate basic skills in the supervision of learners
- apply a standardised approach to teaching, assessment, and feedback without considering individual learner needs
- implement teaching and learning activities that are misaligned to learning goals
- adopt a teaching style that is more didactic rather than encouraging learner self-directedness
- promote engagement in learning within the clinical context
Research
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- demonstrate ability to incorporate and critically analyse relevant and up to date evidence from the literature into clinical teaching
- support learners and colleagues who are undertaking research projects
- encourage and guide learners to seek out relevant research evidence to support practice and answer clinical questions
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- direct learners to review relevant literature
Cultural safety
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- encourage learners to seek out opportunities to develop and improve their own cultural safety
- encourage learners to incorporate culturally safe care of Māori and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples into patient management
- consider, and role model, cultural, ethical, and religious values, and beliefs in approach to teaching and learning
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- function effectively and respectfully when working with, and teaching, people from different cultural backgrounds
Ethics and professional behaviour
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- apply principles of ethical practice to teaching scenarios
- role model professional and ethical behaviours, including respect and collegiality
- respond appropriately to learners seeking professional guidance
- initiate regular supervision sessions within appropriate time frames
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- demonstrate professional values, including commitment to high-quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy, and respect
- provide learners with feedback to improve their experiences
Judgement and decision making
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- prioritise workloads and manage learners with different levels of professional knowledge or experience
- link theory and practice when explaining professional decisions
- promote joint problem solving
- support a learning environment that allows for independent decision making
- use sound and evidence-based judgement during assessments and when giving feedback to learners
- escalate concerns about learners appropriately and keep appropriate documentation
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- provide general advice and support to learners
- use health data logically and effectively to investigate difficult diagnostic problems
Leadership, management, and teamwork
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- maintain performance and continuing professional development standards
- maintain professional, clinical, research, and administrative responsibilities whilst teaching
- promote an inclusive environment whereby the learner feels part of the team
- help shape organisational culture to prioritise quality and work safety through openness, honesty, shared learning, and continued improvement
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- demonstrate the principles and practice of professionalism and leadership in health care
Health policy, systems, and advocacy
Ready to perform without supervision
Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision
The trainee will:
- advocate for suitable resources to provide quality supervision and maintain training standards
- explain the value of health data in the care of patients or populations
- support innovation in teaching and training
Requires some supervision
Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity
The trainee may:
- incompletely integrate public health principals into teaching and practice