Journal article
Beyond ‘spray on’ professional development: Enhancing supervision in a tertiary teaching hospital
The clinical teacher, Vol.22(1), pp.1-7
02/2025
PMID: 39511984
Appears in Recent Faculty of Health Publications
Metrics
1 Record Views
Abstract
Background: Short ‘programmes’ of professional development can have limited impact on clinical supervisors' practices. This paper reports on an innovative programme of professional development, implemented in a tertiary teaching hospital, that was designed to build clinical supervision capacity, improve the educational practice of frontline clinical supervisors and cultivate future educational leaders.
Approach: The programme was a partnership venture between St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne. It has a three-tiered tapered design: a foundational self-paced online course; online, interprofessional learning communities; and a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education. Participants progressed from one tier to the next, with the largest number of employees participating in the primary tier (N = 112).
Evaluation: We adopted a utilisation-focused approach to evaluation, collecting multiple data sets across the tiers. Participants reported greater consciousness of their teaching practices, made changes to their practice, and the interprofessional learning communities allowed better integration of practical knowledge with the formal knowledge from the foundational course. Systemic outcomes included the creation of informal educator networks and the diffusion of ideas and practices within the hospital.
Implications: Managers and clinical education leaders at the hospital concluded that funding this programme of professional development provided significant benefits, with a high return on investment, which may be transferable to other health care settings that place value on clinical education. For the outcomes to be sustainable, an ongoing programme of professional development needs to be built into the institution's fabric so that the resultant supervisory practices become strongly embedded in the organisational culture.
Details
- Title
- Beyond ‘spray on’ professional development: Enhancing supervision in a tertiary teaching hospital
- Creators
- Tim Clement - University of MelbourneJayne Lysk - University of MelbourneBrett Vaughan - University of MelbourneRachel Zordan - St Vincent's HospitalJade Murphy - Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical CenterJustin Tse - University of MelbourneFiona McKinnon - St Vincent's HospitalElizabeth Molloy - University of Melbourne
- Publication Details
- The clinical teacher, Vol.22(1), pp.1-7
- Identifiers
- 991013233613102368
- Copyright
- © 2024 Association for the Study of Medical Education and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Academic Unit
- Allied Health and Midwifery; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article