Critically evaluate your educational practice, identify professional development needs, and use feedback to enhance your teaching and learner engagement.
This course will provide you with a framework to critically reflect on your practice as a health professions educator and identify context-specific professional development needs. You will explore professional conduct as a critical part of professional practice and the behavioural measures of this subjective construct.
You will be equipped with the ability to understand how to make use of learner, peer, and self-evaluation feedback to enhance your own teaching and education practice.
Who is this short course for?
This course is ideal for those from across the healthcare professions who are involved in or have an interest in educational practice.
You will receive 20 Level 7 credits on completing this short course, including the assessment.
You can take the short course on its own or as part of the PGCert/PGDip/MSc in Health Professions Education.
What you will learn
You will learn about professional practice in the health professions, focusing on the value of lifelong learning and reflective practice in professional development. You will explore how to identify your own professional development needs and evaluate your educational practice in order to strengthen it.
How is this short course delivered?
This course is delivered primarily through distance learning, with an optional hybrid study day that can be attended in-person or online. The course allows for flexible study to fit around your other commitments. You will take part in a variety of learning activities on the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), discussions with peers and tutors on online discussion boards and at online learning sessions (typically 2-3 per module, held on weekday evenings), and hybrid study days (held in module week 2 or 3, on the York campus and livestreamed to online attendees).
The time commitment is 200 notional hours across the module (for teaching activities, self-learning and assessment), and therefore approximately 20 hours per week.
Teaching is provided by experienced clinical and non-clinical academics and researchers from our Health Professions Education Unit (HPEU), a group dedicated to advancing health professions education. We extend knowledge boundaries on workforce research, recruitment, selection and widening access, workplace-based learning, curriculum development, professionalism and assessment to enhance practice and understanding.
How is this short course assessed?
The course is assessed through a written assignment.