Giving Effective Feedback

A primary aim of this course is to help you as a clinical educator to reflect on the meaning and purpose of feedback in your context.  We also offer an opportunity to examine your feedback practices and processes, and to consider how these might be improved. We look at what the research suggests are core principles of good feedback and highlight how they could be put into practice.

This course is mapped to GMC Framework Area 5: “Supporting and monitoring educational progress” and can be taken on its own to support your professional development as a clinical educator, or as one of the six courses of the Clinical Educator Programme (CEP), which when completed will provide evidence that you have attained all of the GMC FAs for Supervisors.

The course consists of a single compulsory workshop (online or in person at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh), as well as an online learning component assessed by a quiz that must be a passed, though can be retaken if failed. After clicking “Apply now”, you will be taken to a form that allows you to pick an available workshop. You will then be sent a link to self-enrol onto the course. Workshops run during the month named on the course edition, but the online learning can be begun once you have self-enrolled, if this is earlier, and you will retain access to the course for at least a month afterwards.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Discuss the meaning and purpose of feedback
• Critically reflect on how you engage in feedback, both verbal and written
• Develop feedback practices that support learners in a central and active role

The Clinical Educator Programme (CEP) offers a suite of clinical education courses that are designed to develop the teaching skills of clinicians and academics who teach University of Edinburgh medical students and postgraduate medical trainees in south-east Scotland.

Please visit the Clinical Educator Programme website for the full eligibility requirements.  Please do not apply for the course until you have checked the criteria.