Overview

Teaching and Learning in the Medical Workplace is delivered in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians and offers an introduction to fundamental principles of medical education and the role of the Clinical Supervisor in the medical workplace. Following successful completion of the module, you will be recognised by Health Education England North West as meeting the GMC requirements for the role of Clinical Supervisor.
This module is delivered by blended learning and combines face to face workshops with online learning. It offers you opportunity to discuss best educational practice with module tutors as well as other participants. Module studies draw on both practice and theory as found in the broader scholarly literature. You will need to participate in all four workshops to meet the professional standards for the Clinical Supervisor role.

Satisfactory completion of this module will provide recognised evidence in the following domains of the GMC’s standards for Clinical Supervisor status:
• Domain 1: Ensuring safe and effective patient care
• Domain 2: Establishing and maintaining an environment for learning
• Domain 3: Teaching and facilitating learning
• Domain 4: Enhancing learning through assessment
• Domain 7: Continuing professional development as an educator

For information on the impact of Covid19 on our teaching, please see our Covid19 Teaching Update page.

Who is this module for?

The module is suitable for consultants, higher speciality trainees (eg ST3 and above) and non-consultant career-grade doctors. The module is specifically designed for those working in hospital-based specialties. Applicants working within the Health Education England North West region may be eligible for funding: https://www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/pg-cert.

What are the key aims of the programme?

• To study the core principles of learning, teaching and assessment in postgraduate medical education, as relevant to the role of the Clinical Supervisor.
• To enhance the ability of the participants to use appropriate skills for clinical teaching, workplace-based assessment and feedback.
• To enable participants to provide evidence of appropriate training to meet the General Medical Council (GMC) requirements for the Clinical Supervisor role.
• To provide a context in which participants can review their own continuing professional development as educators.

How Will I Study?

This module is delivered through a blend of on-line learning and 4 workshop sessions. You are offered a choice of dates for each session and some sessions will be delivered on campus, with others offered as synchronous online sessions. There is some preparatory work to complete online prior to attendance at the first workshop session.
There are 2 intakes per year and the module runs over 1 semester E.g. Semester 1: Sept to Dec and Semester 2: Feb to May.

What will I study?

This module offers an introduction to medical education and clinical supervision in the medical workplace.
The module will raise your awareness of key concepts involved in teaching and facilitating learning, including:
• Adult learning theories
• The educational climate
• Styles of learning
• Styles of teaching
• Clinical skills teaching
• Ad hoc clinical workplace teaching
• Principles of reflective practice
• Workplace-based assessment
• Giving meaningful feedback

How will I be assessed?

The module assessment will build on what you learn during your studies and you will be required to produce two pieces of academic work to demonstrate your achievement of the module learning outcomes:
Assessment 1: Personal Approach to Teaching (Essay)
Assessment 2: Peer Observation of Teaching (Essay and Portfolio)

On successful completion you will:

Successful completion of this module will enable you to critically analyse and explore the role of teaching and learning in the clinical context and make critical judgments about the support of trainees within the medical workplace. You will be able to provide evidence that you have met the GMC requirements for the role of Clinical Supervisor.
You will enhance your skills in teaching, assessment, clinical supervision and reflective practice, with the opportunity to review your own professional development needs as an educator and to plan and undertake relevant and appropriate activities to meet those identified needs.

Further Information

Module availability varies from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Due to the popularity of some modules it may be that the module is fully booked when your application is received. We will include your details on a waiting list and allocate you a place on the next available intake.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible to give you the best chance to obtain a place on your preferred cohort, module applications will close as soon as the module is full. As many modules have online module induction and/or pre-reading to do before the first workshop, applications received within two weeks of the start date may have to be considered for a later cohort.

To apply for this module please access the online application form here: module application form.

We cannot guarantee that any applications received after 23rd August 2021 will be allocated a place in September and may be allocated to the February 2022 cohort instead. If any applications are accepted following the 23rd August, this is done so on the understanding that applicants will make time to complete the required pre-module work.

If you have any other queries about studying with us, please see the FAQ page.

For further information on module content, please contact the module leader - Helen McNeill
email [email protected] or T: 01695 650846

Or you can contact the Medical School email on [email protected].

Pathways

This module is available as a standalone module or as a module within the

PGCert Workplace-based Postgraduate Medical Education