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Clinical Supervision: Planning Your Professional Development

Identify your own learning needs as a clinical supervisor and create a personal development plan to address them.

6,575 enrolled on this course

Clinical Supervision: Planning Your Professional Development

6,575 enrolled on this course

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  • Introductory level

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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.

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.

What topics will you cover?

  • Continuing professional development (CPD)
  • Planning your personal professional development
  • Reflection: making it work in practice
  • Types of reflection
  • Quality improvement
  • The reflective educator

When would you like to start?

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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

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. You can also take:

Who will you learn with?

Emeritus Professor of Public Health & Medical Education, Norwich Medical School, UEA.
Lifelong Learner; Supervisor & Mentor; 'early adopter'; and advocate of pedagogy before technology.

Doctor of Health Professions Education
Associate Professor in Medical Education
Norwich Medical School, UEA.
Lead for the online PGCertClinEd at Norwich Medical School
Twitter: @OrsiniCesar

Who developed the course?

UEA (University of East Anglia)

The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university providing top quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over 15,000 students from over 100 countries around the globe.

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Choose the best way to learn for you!

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Develop skills to further your career

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  • Access to 1,000+ courses
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Discuss your learning in comments
  • Tests to boost your learning
  • Digital certificate when you're eligible

Cancel for free anytime

Buy this course

$109/one-off payment

Fulfill your current learning need

  • Access to this course
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Discuss your learning in comments
  • Tests to boost your learning
  • Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible

Limited access

Free

Sample the course materials

  • Access expires 27 May 2024

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