{"id":2867,"date":"2025-07-14T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:00:06","slug":"junior-doctors-enticed-into-medical-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/2025\/07\/14\/junior-doctors-enticed-into-medical-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior doctors enticed into medical teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/dayna.duncan\">Dr Dayna Duncan<\/a>, Medical Education Registrar, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/melba.ridd\">Melba Ridd<\/a>, Lecturer in Remote Allied Health, presented at the Resident Medical Officer (RMO) weekly teaching session in Darwin this July. The one-hour session titled \u2018Learning to Teach\u2019 was designed to whet the RMO\u2019s appetites and to encourage them to consider further training in clinical supervision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018Learning to Teach\u2019 session was attended by 26 pre-vocational doctors as well as some allied health colleagues and senior students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2870\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2870\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2025\/07\/RMO-teaching-July-2025-1024x733.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2025\/07\/RMO-teaching-July-2025-1024x733.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2025\/07\/RMO-teaching-July-2025-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2025\/07\/RMO-teaching-July-2025-768x549.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2025\/07\/RMO-teaching-July-2025.jpeg 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Dayna Duncan and Melba Ridd during the session titled \u2018Learning to Teach\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Melba and Dayna shared a taster of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/study\/short-courses\/clinical-supervision-workshop\">Clinical Supervision Workshop<\/a>, starting with how to create a safe and productive learning environment, then demonstrated the use of Peyton\u2019s 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\u2019s careful instruction and supervision (the knot was attached to a chair and not a real patient, of course!)<\/p>\n<p>The feedback was very positive, with one attendee having recently attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/study\/short-courses\/clinical-supervision-workshop\">Clinical Supervision Workshop<\/a> and sharing that they\u2019d already implemented Peyton\u2019s four-step model with great success. Delegates were given the sign-up link for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/study\/short-courses\/clinical-supervision-workshop\">Clinical Supervision Workshop<\/a> being run across the Northern Territory for the remainder of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5851,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4201,4206,1625,3320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmph-staff","category-events","category-flinders-nt","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}