Developing the Clinical Trainer: Teaching Skills for Early Stage Trainees

This course will provide foundation doctors and medical students with an overview of teaching, learning and feedback in the clinical environment.

4–19 June 2025
Online
6 CPD
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Members £110. Non Members £180.

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Overview

This online course will provide foundation doctors and medical and dental students with an overview of teaching, learning and feedback in the clinical environment. Mapped to the foundation curriculum, participants will be given the opportunity to create a detailed plan for a short teaching session related to their clinical practice, and will receive written feedback on this for their portfolios.

Who should attend?

  • Medical students
  • Foundation doctors
  • The course may also be of interest to core trainees and early-stage GP

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate enhanced understanding of the clinical learning environment and its teaching and learning opportunities
  • Utilise current thinking around learning and teaching principles
  • Apply different approaches to teaching, with a particular focus on small-group teaching
  • Plan teaching activities aligned with intended learning outcomes
  • Demonstrate increased understanding of effective approaches to providing feedback in the clinical environment
  • Apply basic feedback principles

    Dental enhanced CPD development outcomes:  A & B

Dates and times

Wednesday 4 June
13.30-14.00: Introductory live online session

Wednesday 18 or Thursday 19 June
10.00-12.00 or 14.00-16.00: Live small-group interactive sessions.

A choice of two time slots will be available for the interactive session and the College will endeavour to accommodate participants’ preferences but slots will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact the course coordinator to book your place on one of these sessions.

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Other course dates

Book: 1 October 2025
Book: 4 February 2026

 

Claiming your CPD points 

This course offers 6 CPD points for everyone who attends. This can be claimed via your College account. CPD points will be available for up to one month after the course. Where the course has been recorded, these sessions will also be available.   

If you have any questions about claiming your CPD points, our Education team are happy to help.   

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Coordinator

Shanliza Mcintyre

0141 465 7328 shanliza.Mcintyre@rcpsg.ac.uk

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