The Rural Clinical School (Rural and Remote Health, SA) hosted a successful supervisor workshop for rural clinicians on Saturday the 14th of October. Nearly forty clinicians from primary care, medicine, emergency, and surgery from across rural South Australia participated.
Informative presentations and interactive workshops focused on supporting learners in the clinical environment.
Acknowledging that clinicians supervise learners across the medical education and training pipeline, the workshop focused on supervision skills relevant to medical students through to junior doctors. Content was inclusive of building skills to create a learning environment for learners to thrive in.
The interactive workshop drew on the collective skills of supervisors, clinicians, and academics to focus on effective ways to mentor and assist learners in the clinical environment.
Presenters and their topics included:
- Dr Michal Wozniak – Overview of Flinders Medical Program
- Dr Adrian Anthony – Understanding student learning needs/effective supervision, identifying and supporting learning needs
- Professor Martin Veysey – Entrustable Professional Activities
- Professor Lambert Schuwirth – Assessment and Giving Feedback
A networking dinner followed the workshop and participants were provided with a certificate of attendance and encouraged to apply for CPD points with their respective colleges.
Feedback following the workshop included,
“Excellent topics, speakers and discussions. Thank you.”
“I really liked the final cases discussions on “what would you do if x Dr did y” and would have liked longer on this. I also enjoyed talking to the other participants and networking over lunch and again I would have liked longer on this. Overall the workshop was great, thanks for organising :-)”
“Great day – well done Vanessa”
Participants either strongly agreed or agreed that the workshop provided them with additional information and skills to support their role as a supervisor and workshop participants also either strongly agreed or agreed that they would attend or recommend others to attend if the workshop was held again next year.
We look forward to working with our clinician stakeholder group as collectively we prepare Flinders graduates for the health workforce. Future supervisor workshops aim to build on the success of this one.