Dr Dayna Duncan, Medical Education Registrar, and Melba Ridd, Lecturer in Remote Allied Health, presented at the Resident Medical Officer (RMO) weekly teaching session in Darwin this July. The one-hour session titled ‘Learning to Teach’ was designed to whet the RMO’s appetites and to encourage them to consider further training in clinical supervision.

This session was requested by these PGY2+ (Postgraduate Year 2 and beyond) doctors who are interested in becoming more involved in teaching. According to the latest Medical Training Survey, 76% of trainee doctors in the Northern Territory are interested in getting involved in medical teaching. The ‘Learning to Teach’ session was attended by 26 pre-vocational doctors as well as some allied health colleagues and senior students.

Melba and Dayna shared a taster of the Clinical Supervision Workshop, starting with how to create a safe and productive learning environment, then demonstrated the use of Peyton’s four-step approach to teach a clinical skill, then finally a video deconstruction of the One-Minute Preceptor model. Melba, a certified practising speech pathologist, was delighted to demonstrate to the attendees how to tie a surgical knot under Dayna’s careful instruction and supervision (the knot was attached to a chair and not a real patient, of course!)

The feedback was very positive, with one attendee having recently attended the Clinical Supervision Workshop and sharing that they’d already implemented Peyton’s four-step model with great success. Delegates were given the sign-up link for the Clinical Supervision Workshop being run across the Northern Territory for the remainder of 2025.