Clinical Supervision: Assessing and Providing Feedback (FutureLearn)

Clinical Supervision: Assessing and Providing Feedback (FutureLearn)

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

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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.

Syllabus

Week 1: Workplace-based assessments
Week 2: Conducting WPBAs and assessing competence progression
Week 3: Providing feedback and supporting the learner in difficulty

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
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