Clinical Supervision: Planning Your Professional Development (FutureLearn)

Clinical Supervision: Planning Your Professional Development (FutureLearn)

Identify your own learning needs as a clinical supervisor and create a personal development plan to address them. Reflect on your clinical supervision practice and plan your personal development. This online course will focus on identifying your learning needs as a clinical supervisor or practice educator, and provide advice on creating a personal development plan to address them.

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You’ll reflect critically on your own supervisory practice using appropriate frameworks, learn how to evaluate your own teaching activities, and address feedback you receive from the medical students and trainees that you supervise, or through peer observation
The course will also discuss the principles of quality assurance and quality improvement in education, and how these can be applied in your context.

Syllabus

Week 1: How can I become a better educator?
Week 2: Becoming a reflective practitioner
Week 3: Evaluation and quality improvement of educational activities

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Identify your own learning needs as a supervisor and create a personal development plan to achieve these
  • Reflect critically on your own supervisory practice using appropriate frameworks and support reflective practice among learners
  • Evaluate your own teaching/ training activities and address feedback received from learners or through peer observation
  • Discuss the principles of quality assurance and quality improvement of educational activities

Who is the course for?
This course is suitable for all post-registration doctors and healthcare professionals, especially those holding supervisory responsibility for pre-registration health professional students and postgraduate medical trainees in hospital or community settings.
It is one of a series of Clinical Supervision courses developed by a multidisciplinary group of clinical educators from Norwich Medical School.

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