Workplace Education in Healthcare (Online)

This course considers:

• The individual student’s clinical setting and their contribution to teaching and assessing in that environment
• Educational theory to enable facilitation of learning and application of assessment principles within the clinical setting
• Innovation, change and sustainability within education applied to the student’s clinical setting
• Reflections on their own personal learning and how this contributes to their professional development
• Dissemination of the outcomes of the student’s learning to demonstrate improvements in clinical education

Knowledge and understanding

• Express what they have learnt about the teaching of a particular specialist area and explain how this knowledge supports their professional practice
• Demonstrate their understanding of reflection in their development of teaching skills

Intellectual skills

• Examine the educational demands of their professional role in the light of national and local priorities and clinical requirements
• Critically review the significance of learning and assessment to their students and themselves

Professional skills

• Design an educational activity or improvement appropriate to their clinical setting, implement it and evaluate the impact
• Reflect on how this learning will benefit their clinical setting

Transferable skills

• Review their own learning needs with regard to further professional development within their field of expertise
• Analyse their professional development in preparing to disseminate this work

Distance learning. Guided online study, online tutorials, independent learning.

Total student activity: 200 hours