Online course in Health & Psychology

Clinical Supervision: Assessing and Providing Feedback

Explore workplace-based assessment methods and how to use them effectively in practice with this course for clinical supervisors.

Clinical Supervision: Assessing and Providing Feedback

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  • Duration 3 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
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Explore new models to provide feedback to and support your students and trainees

This online course will focus on the principles of workplace-based assessment and commonly used workplace-based assessment tools. It will show you how to apply these as part of your clinical supervision.

You’ll learn the importance of assessing competence and progression among your students and trainees.

You’ll also look at models to observe performance and provide effective feedback, and explore strategies to identify and support learners who are in difficulty.

What topics will you cover?

  • Workplace based assessments
  • WPBAs: supervisor and trainee perspectives
  • Competence
  • Giving feedback
  • Learners in difficulty

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Explain the principles of workplace-based assessment
  • Develop a working knowledge and understanding of commonly used workplace-based assessment tools
  • Discuss the principles of assessing competence progression among learners
  • Evaluate a variety of models to observe performance and provide effective feedback to learners
  • Identify and support learners in difficulty

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?

Veena Rodrigues

Veena Rodrigues

Professor of Public Health & Medical Education, Norwich Medical School;
Lifelong Learner; Supervisor & Mentor; 'early adopter' but advocate of pedagogy before technology.
Twitter: @vcrodrigues_uea

Who developed the course?

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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