Teaching clinical skills is a foundation skill of any health educator in a clinical setting. Clinical range from simple tasks and to more complication and involved procedures. However, the basic and essential steps for effective teaching a skill are the same in any situation. Teaching a skill requires effective process, communication and feedback. This is a very practical and “hands on” workshop.

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Understand the role of skills in clinical learning
2. Describe and justify the essential steps in learning a skill.
3. Analyse skills into stages for communicating to learners.
4. Teach a skill using a simple and sustainable technique.
5. Isolate features of and give feedback on skill teaching technique.

In preparation for this workshop, all participants should bring equipment that will enable them to teach a simple skill to other participants; examples of skills used (besides a clinical one) in the past have been; origami, folding a napkin, card tricks, using chop sticks; derigging a beach tent; ironing a shirt; knitting e.g. casting on; sewing on a button; throwing a pizza (from pre-prepared dough).

PLEASE NOTE: The skills should not take more than 3 minutes to demonstrate by a skilled person. If your skill takes longer, just prepare a component of it to teach

Facilitator:

Brian Jolly
Professor of Medical Education,
Health Workforce Education and Assessment Research Team,
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University
Email: [email protected]

Location: Royal Darwin Hospital, Auditorium Room 1, Rocklands Drive, Casuarina

Date and time: 24th March, 6pm - 8.30 pm

Costs: $110

RSVP: Numbers are limited; please RSVP to Alex Billeter [email protected] by 11^th March, 2011

CPD Points: RACGP 6 QI&CPD and RCNA 3 CNE, ACRRM PDP (TBA)

FLYER - Teaching Clinical Skills Workshop

This workshop will discuss the common claims about Gen Y’s characteristics and provide some guiding principles for teachers closely

working with this group. The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to develop their skills in teaching the Y generation including the importance of interaction, engagement and challenge. Practical strategies to address these considerations will be covered during the workshop.

Learning objectives

• Critically analyse claims about the Y generation;
• Identify principles of effective teaching and learning in relation to learners more broadly and the Y generation; and
• Develop effective educational strategies for teaching and supervising the Y generation

Facilitator:

Geoff White, Senior Lecturer Monash University

Qualifications: PhD, MEd St, DipEd, BAppSci

Email:␣[email protected]

Background: Geoff’’s background is in residential adolescent care, juvenile justice, high school biology teaching and health professions teacher education. Geoff currently teaches in the Monash University Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education course. Geoff has particular interests in intensive care nursing education, loss and grief education and effective teaching in general.

Location: Royal Darwin Hospital, Auditorium Room 1, Rocklands Drive, Casuarina

Date and Time: 14th April, 6 pm - 8.30 pm

Costs: $110

RSVP: Numbers are limited, please RSVP to [email protected] by 1^st April 2010

CPD Points: RACGP 6 Category 2 Points and RCNA 3 CNE Points, ACRRM PDP (TBA)

FLYER - Gen Y Workshop