Teaching Healthcare Professionals
Enhance your teaching practice as a health professional and gain accredited, professional skills in health professions education.
Duration
10 weeksCost
$1,009
Develop your healthcare teaching with one of the UK’s leading universities
Healthcare professionals (HCPs) participate in work-based learning at all stages of their career, whether during training placements, on the job, or when undertaking CPD.
Although teaching is secondary to healthcare delivery, it remains an essential activity for sharing vital knowledge and skills amongst health professionals. However, many HCPs teaching students, trainees, or colleagues have had very little formal teaching training.
According to the General Medical Council, all doctors have a professional obligation to contribute to the education and training of other healthcare professionals.
On this microcredential, you’ll enhance your skills in learner-centred healthcare teaching and build your confidence in teaching for a healthcare environment.
You’ll be introduced to practical planning tools that will help you to prepare an effective teaching session and learn evidence- and theory-based strategies for supporting your learners’ professional development.
You’ll explore various teaching formats, skills, and activities such as reflection, peer observation, and feedback, and identify the benefits of each for facilitating active learning.
You’ll also discover the diverse nature of teaching in a healthcare environment as you consider the different methods for teaching specialist, generic, and professional knowledge.
This microcredential meets the standards set by the Common Microcredential Framework.
What skills will you learn?
- Lesson planning
- Presentation skills
- Learner-centred teaching
- Facilitation skills
- Applying pedagogy
- Reflective practice
What you will achieve
By the end of the microcredential, you’ll be able to...
- Produce a lesson plan for teaching in a healthcare environment
- Develop an effective teaching session or otherwise facilitate learning in the healthcare environment
- Develop strategies to support learners’ acquisition and application of relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes within the healthcare environment
- Reflect on your professional teaching practice and identify strategies for development
Are you eligible for this microcredential?
In order to join this microcredential, you should hold either a primary qualification in healthcare or currently be working in a healthcare environment.
You should also ideally have an IELTS equivalent of 6.5.
A learner on this microcredential may currently work as a dentist, medical doctor, nurse, paramedic, pharmacist, physiotherapist, speech and language therapist, or in a similar healthcare practising role.
Is this microcredential right for you?
This microcredential is designed for healthcare professionals whose role involves teaching students, trainees, or their colleagues working in the NHS or with another healthcare provider.
It will support you to enhance and develop your learner-centred teaching skills to ensure your fellow healthcare professionals gain the true value of your healthcare expertise.
The credential can be used as evidence of teaching-related CPD or to decide whether a higher level degree in the subject is right for you.
Syllabus
What happens before, during, and after your microcredential
Before learning
You’ll be enrolled directly with The University of Glasgow, allowing you access to the University library and student services.
Course 1
From 18 Jan 2021
Welcome to Teaching Healthcare Professionals
Introduction to the University of Glasgow and the key topics of this micro-credential.
1 week
10 hours per week
Course 2
From 25 Jan 2021
Preparing to Teach
Use aspects of the ‘teaching cycle’ and planning tools for effective teaching.
3 weeks
10 hours per week
Course 3
From 15 Feb 2021
Teaching for Learning
Explore the teaching skills and activities that will enhance your learners’ experience.
3 weeks
10 hours per week
Course 4
From 8 Mar 2021
Work-based teaching
Explore how and what you can teach in a healthcare environment
3 weeks
10 hours per week
After learning
Once you have successfully completed the microcredential, you’ll receive 10 academic credits at Postgraduate level from The University of Glasgow.
What you will receive
10 UK credits at Postgraduate level from The University of Glasgow
Find out how credits work and where you can use them in our FAQs.
What is a microcredential?
Microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. Your microcredential can stand alone as an independent credential, and some also offer academic credit to use towards a degree.
Complete online courses led by experts over multiple weeks with a dedicated group of professionals.
Test your understanding with online tutor-marked assessments and exercises.
Finish your learning and pass your assessments to gain an accredited credential.
Use your microcredential as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your industry.
Career-focused learning by The University of Glasgow
Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities.
Established
1451Location
Glasgow, Scotland, UKWorld ranking
Top 70Source: QS World University Rankings 2020
Delivered by experts
Professor of Health Professions Education at the University of Glasgow.
Former Deputy Head of UG Medical School at Glasgow. Now Director of our Health Professions Education masters programme.
Originally Veterinary Medicine (VetMB) with intercalated Pathology, Masters in Clinical Microbiology, now a tutor at the Medical School, University of Glasgow. Recently completed PG Cert HPE, AF HEA.
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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What are our learners saying?
The latest studies and their recommendations were reflected
"The latest studies and their recommendations were reflected within the course... shows how determined the course providers are to use the most recent research and experience."
It will definitely help me plan and deliver future teaching sessions.
"l learned how to create a teaching plan, and found the process of reviewing my teaching session critically very useful. It will definitely help me plan and deliver future teaching sessions."
When would you like to start?
Enrolment for this microcredential is closed. We aim to run our microcredentials every few months. Register to find out more about this microcredential and future start dates.
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FAQ
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You will have 14 days from the day the course starts to apply for a refund. If this Microcredential has any non-refundable costs they will be stated in the ‘Overview’ section above. You can find more information in our cancellation and refund policy.
Microcredentials are designed to fit around your life and timezone.
There may be live events as part of your studies, but these will be recorded and can be watched afterwards if you aren’t online for the live broadcast.
No, microcredentials are designed to be taken anywhere in the world. You won’t need the right to study in the country where the university offering the microcredential is based.
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