Educational Resources and Coursesfor Clinical Educators/Preceptors

Educational Resources and Coursesfor Clinical Educators/Preceptors

Program for Faculty Development - McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences
The Program for Faculty Development (PFD), is dedicated to promoting teaching and learning in the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University while offering faculty, staff, residents, community preceptors and external visitors various interdisciplinary programs and workshops aimed at improving teaching effectiveness.
Workshops and other sessions are provided primarily at the main McMaster campus throughout the year and information about these can be found at the website. These include: Tutorial McBloopers (Advanced Tutor Training), Professionalism, Clinical Teaching, Narrative Healthcare, and many others. An Annual DAY in FACULTY DEVELOPMENT is held 1st Wednesday in May including Interprofessional Poster Fair, Short Sessions on timely topics, Invited Guest Lecture.Our website provides dates and information for upcoming sessions, as well as some tools and resources and links to useful external websites. You may find the other links gathered here helpful as well.

Faculty Development opportunities also occur at the McMaster Regional Campuses (Kitchener-Waterloo (), and Niagara (), and within University Departments/Programs. Most Faculty of Health Sciences Events are advertised here:

Resources for PBL Tutors
Allyn Walsh - Intro Presentation

The Tutor in PBL: a novice's guide

Sample Case - "Edwin McKenzie"

Mike Marrin - Tutorial Evaluation Tips

Mike Marrin - Student Evaluation at McMaster
Alan Neville - Building the COMPASS Curriculum - CPD Workshop Sept 26th

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Resources for Clinical Skills Preceptors
Alan Neville - Hypothesis-driven Evidence-based Clinical Exam
Haider Saeed - Teaching Clinical Skills

Practice Education(log-in as guest)
8 online modules: Setting The Stage; The Role Learning Plays; Enhancing Your Teaching Skills; Fostering Clinical Reasoning; Giving Feedback; The Evaluation Process: Supporting The Struggling Student; Conflict Resolution

PracticalProf - Effective Clinical Teaching
Practical Prof provides concise, high-quality teaching tools for busy rural clinicians instructing medical students and residents. Practical Prof resources include effective, time-efficient teaching tips and tools appropriate for use in rural offices or hospitals.

6 Modules: Preparing to Teach; Teaching Nuts & Bolts; Observations & Feedback; Assessment; Learners in Difficulty; Working with IMGs.

Practical Doc (by rural doctors, for rural doctors) - videos & downloads
Orienting the Learner; One Minute Preceptor; RIME; SNAPPS; Chart Stimulated Recall; Effective Questioning/Feedback; Non-effective Questioning

ART (Accessible Resource for Teaching)
This online tool provides additional ways for individuals and groups to participate in faculty development. The goal of ART is to bring faculty development to the teaching practice through the use of short, focused modules. Each module focuses on a particular teaching and learning topic that can be applied in the teaching context and practice. Teaching videos, reflection questions and resources are included and each module can be completed within about 15 minutes.
Providing effective feedback; Small group facilitation; Digital professionalism and privacy; Effective role modeling; and more.

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R-SCOPE - resources and support for Community Preceptor Excellence
An amalgam of teaching resources and tools for community physicians who teach Family Medicine residents (for new teachers as well as more experienced preceptors). This Provincial Faculty Development Initiative is a collaboration amongOntario's six Schools of Medicine, the OntarioCollege of Family Physicians and the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine.

EPIC- The Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum
a faculty development curriculum in clinical teaching for community practitioners who serve as preceptors to health profession students. It is quite dynamic and uses videos and self-assessment questions to facilitate the development of teaching skills.

10 Modules: Setting the Stage; Effective Teaching in the Community Practice; Evaluating Performance and Giving Feedback; Teamwork in Health Care; Information Technology; Evidence Based Care; Clinical-Patient Relationships; Changing Environment: Managing Care; Health Promotion/Disease Prevention; Working with the Community

MAHEC Preceptor Development Program (PDP)
PDP was designed for community-based teachers of residents, medical students, and other health profession students to meet the faculty development needs of diverse and often isolated part-time faculty to meet the challenges of teaching and evaluating students in the community setting.
The program contains seven sessions designed to help preceptors meet the challenges of teaching and evaluating students in the community setting. Lessons include such topics as setting expectations, giving feedback and "one minute" precepting skills, as well as, insight into teaching style preferences and ways to deal with difficult situations. These materials are available in an e-learning format through the MAHEC e-Learning System.

Effective Teaching in the Clinical Setting - online learning module

Preceptor Education Program (PEP) for Health Professionals and Students
8 modules: Orientation-Welcoming the Student, Roles and Expectations; Developing (Really Useful) Learning Objectives; Giving and Receiving Informal FB; Understanding and Fostering Clinical Reasoning; Fostering Reflective Practice; Advanced Topics in Reflective Practice; Dealing with Conflict; The Formal Evaluation Process

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E-Learning for Clinical Teachers (Faculty Development online modules)
The London Deanery has a series of open access short modules covering core topics in clinical teaching and learning to support the professional development of clinical preceptors. You can read through the modules without registration, but by registering on the site you can gain access to the reflective area and receive a certificate on completion of the module.
Topics include: Assessing educational needs; Setting learning objectives; How to give feedback; Supervision; Careers support; Workplace-based assessment; Small group teaching; Facilitating learning in the workplace; Diversity, equal opportunities and human rights; Introduction to educational research; Improve your lecturing; Appraisal; Teaching clinical skills; Interprofessional education; Involving patients in clinical teaching; Managing the trainee in difficulty; Using simulation in clinical education; Assuring and maintaining quality in clinical education; Structured assessments of clinical competence; E-learning in clinical teaching.

Teaching Skills for Community Based Preceptors

6 Chapters: What is an effective clinical teacher?; How do we learn? Preparing to Teach.; Teaching with patients. Observation, feedback & assessment; What to do with learners with problems.

Working with IMGs: Delivering Effective Feedback
a Faculty Development Program for Teachers of International Medical Graduates - Allyn Walsh, McMaster University, The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada

Models for Teaching in the Ambulatory Setting

Tool for training community preceptors to use a variety of strategies in supervising medical students in the ambulatory setting using a learner-centered approach.

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Simple Precepting Tools
How to Orient Learners to the Practice Setting Guide; One Minute Preceptor; Constructive Feedback; Introducing Learners to Patients Tips; Two-Minute Teaching; Technique for Observing the Learner; Five-Step Method for Teaching Clinical Skills; Priming Learner for Patient Encounter

Approach to Teaching Clinical Skills: Physical Exam
44 slide presentation: systematic teaching skills; vocabulary; teaching complex skills; iterative teaching approach; methods and techniques of teaching

General Internal Medicine Faculty Development Project
30 modules on various topics

Clinical Education Tips & Tutorials
Collection of clinical teaching resource links (24 links)

Self-Assessment Test: Conflict Management
a tool to help identify your conflict management style

The Effective Preceptor:
Checklists for 1) Orientation; 2) Teaching; 3) Feedback.

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Preceptor Development Program (PDP) - University of Virginia Health System

The PDP is organized into a series of discrete learning modules that are designed as stand-alone activities. You can complete as many modules as you like during a computer session, however, you cannot stop in the middle of a module so it is key that you set aside the appropriate amount of time per session.

7 modules: Taking a student into your office; Teaching and Learning Styles; Interacting with your Medical Student; Providing Feedback; The One-Minute Preceptor; Teaching the Clinical Competencies; Evaluating your Student.

NEW! The Clinician-Educator’s Handbook
20 chapter book addresses a wide variety of issues of clinical education. Designed so that most chapters can be read free-standing and can be used as a reference when looking for specific information. The authors have divided general teaching techniques (such as establishing goals and objectives, setting curriculum, and asking questions) into their own chapters, distinct from setting-specific chapters.

Pearls & Pitfalls for Preceptors
A 13 episode (YouTube) series on how to teach medical students and residents during office-based patient encounters.

Guidebook for Clerkship Directors
16 Chapters on roles, methods, forms and advice organized around the seven Core Competencies.

The Resident in Difficulty - Family Practice Residency Program, UBC

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Triple C Toolkit
The Triple C Toolkit gives you access to the tools you'll need to better understand or explain the CFPC's Triple C Competency-based Curriculum, as a whole or in its components, including the process of competency-based assessment. These tools are designed for program directors, educational leaders, clinical teachers, residents and learners, and external collaborators.

Medical Journal of Australia Education Series
Teaching on the Run Tip 1: Doctors as teachers
Teaching on the Run Tip 2: Educational guides for teaching in a clinical setting
Teaching on the Run Tip 3: Planning a teaching episode
Teaching on the Run Tip 4: Teaching with patients
Teaching on the Run Tip 5: Teaching a skill
Teaching on the Run Tip 6: Determining competence
Teaching on the Run Tip 7: Effective use of questions
Teaching on the Run Tip 8: Assessment and appraisal
Teaching on the Run Tip 9: In-training assessment
Teaching on the Run Tip 10: Giving feedback
Teaching on the Run Tip 11: The junior doctor in difficulty
Teaching on the Run Tip 12: Planning term learning
Teaching on the Run Tip 13: Preventing problems: being a good supervisor
Teaching on the Run Tip 14: Teaching in the ambulatory setting

PBSG-ED (Practice-Based Small Group Education)
(via the McMasterUniversity, Program for Faculty Development)

PBSG-ED modules are dedicated to the enhancement of the educational skills of busy clinician teachers through the development of paper modules which can be used by small groups of teachers at times and settings of their convenience.

Topics include: Feedback; Medical Errors and Mistakes; Teaching on the Fly; Learner in Difficulty; Evaluation of Learner Performance; Preparing for New Learners; International Medical Graduates; Working Together: Interprofessional Education and Collaboration among Health Professionals; Developing Professionalism in our Learners: Critical Conversations, and

Conflict Management: Strategies for the Preceptor.

Compiled by:
Annette Sciarra, Program Administrator, Program for Faculty Development, McMaster University
update March 19, 2014