MD8003:03
*NOTE* Clinical Supervision for Rural Medical Practitioners
Townsville
10 tutorials, 20 hours practicals, 20 hours workshops, 20 hours other. First or second semester flexible delivery.
Primarily designed for rural medical practitioners, but relevant to any experienced rural health practitioner. Ideally, enrolling students should have a learner in their practice during part of the course.
Staff: Dean of School of Medicine.
This subject assists rural health practitioners who provide clinical supervision for undergraduate or postgraduate learners (students) to develop an understanding of the educational issues in clinical supervision and to improve their supervision skills.
Learning Objectives:
- understanding of student’s personal learning needs and wants;
- understanding of how to recognise the needs of individual learners working with student;
- knowledge about differing learning styles;
- understanding of the principles of adult learning;
- application of a model of clinical supervision within the practice;
- ability to assess progress towards agreed learning objectives;
- skill in provision of appropriate feedback to learners;
- skill in facilitating a small group.
Assessment by an analysis of learning activities of a learner in the practice, preferably during the course; presentation of a learning assessment task during the residential block (direct observation of the learner, videotape review, random chart audit, tutorials on particular topics, learning strategy audit, negotiating learning goals and measuring progress); a review of the student’s learning portfolio at the end of the term (this will document the supervision experience before and after the residential block).