Online Teach the Teacher Course

This online Teach the Teacher course is designed to help doctors and other healthcare professionals gain confidence in their teaching and presentation skills. Driven by evidence-based education techniques, it covers a wide range of skills and knowledge, including:

• IMT/ACCS Applications: Counts for 1 point as it includes 13 hours of synchronous (live) teaching
• CST applications: Counts for 3 points as it is a live course.

During this online course, you will get a chance to complete a questionnaire which will help identify your individual learning style and determine how you can use this knowledge to enhance your own medical teaching courses. You will also have the opportunity to discuss teaching strategies during a two-hour live and interactive webinar which constitutes the final module of this course.

By the end of this teach the teacher course, you will fully understand how to plan, design, structure, and deliver engaging teaching sessions using a variety of teaching formats and methods. This online course is suitable for doctors of all grades, as well as managers, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Course Modules

Aims

To educate healthcare professionals on the theories and practical applications of key teaching models and techniques.

Objectives

• Understand the key elements of adult education theory, and how to develop and write structured teaching objectives.

• Learn to adapt teaching to the different learning styles, and how to use different teaching styles and techniques effectively.

• Learn how to deliver effective teaching sessions to both small and large group teaching.

• Learn how to coach others in a one-to-one scenario.

• Learn how to give effective feedback and how to deal with difficult students. 

Learning Content

This training session is intended to create an understanding of the various teaching methods and styles so that they can be successfully used with any type of audience.

Development Outcomes (for GDC purposes only)

This CPD course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome: A, B