Teaching in Clinical Environments

We have structured the course to focus on teaching in the clinical environment, with an emphasis on protecting patients and enhancing care through a process of induction to the clinical environment and effective learner supervision. We will also consider how you might balance your clinical responsibilities with the educational needs of your learners. Finally, we will explore clinical uncertainty and ask, how do you support learners to navigate this constant phenomenon? 

This course is mapped to General Medical Council (GMC) Framework Area 1 “Ensuring safe and effective patient care through training” 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 will be able to:

• Promote opportunities for learning in a range of clinical workplaces
• Support students to maximise learning from these opportunities

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. Learners