Interactions Inviting Change: Communication Skills for Clinical Supervisors (FD20APR26)

The GMC defines a Clinical Supervisor as “A trainer who is designated and appropriately trained to be responsible for overseeing a specified student or trainee’s clinical work in a clinical environment, providing constructive feedback during that training period, and informing the summative judgment at the end of that clinical training period and/or series of periods."

This full day workshop on Zoom is highly interactive with breakout room activities and open discussions

Workshop content: • When is it the right learning environment? Identify the right situations and/or patients • Questioning techniques that promote a shift in the learners thinking. Practical exercise • The adult learning cycle • Group discussion: Effective, constructive feedback? • The model of ‘one minute preceptureship’ • Shaping the teaching conversation: Practical development of preceptureship into straight forward conversations • Preparation time • Solution focussed coaching exercises and feedback • Action planning and review

GMC approved AoME domains covered: Domain 1 6 guided learning hours 6 CPD points

Booking courses

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Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

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If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is only available to Educational Supervisors, Education Leads, Training Programme Directors and Senior Faculty within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

The aim of this course is to focus on the essential communication and interactive skills needed for good supervision, i.e. those that encourage reflection and facilitate the sharing of experience and best practice.

• We will learn when is it the right learning environment • Question techniques that promote a shift in the learners thinking. • Draw attention to the adult learning cycle • Learn what effective, constructive feedback is • Note the model of ‘one‑minute preceptorship’ • Learn to Shape the teaching conversation: Practical development of preceptorship into straight forward conversations • Feature the importance of Preparation time • Solution focused coaching exercises and feedback • Action planning and review

By the end of the one day programme, delegates will be able to: - Identify the difference between coaching, teaching and counselling - Identify practical opportunities for work based coaching - Create an environment of trust and safety to accelerate development and ensure patient confidence - Give constructive feedback in a way that motivates and enhances learning