Learning to Teach (LTT) professional development program

The Learning to Teach (LTT) program is an optional professional development program supporting senior UNSW medical students - in their final ‘Pre-Internship’ course of their Medicine program - in the development of their teaching skills.

Core modules: 

• Harnessing adult learning principles
• What makes an effective teacher? The effective teacher’s toolkit 
  • Creating safe and brave learning environments 
  • Ensuring culturally safe teaching practice 
  • Understanding your learners 
  • Setting up learning expectations 
  • Writing goals and learning objectives 
  • Planning a teaching and learning episode 
  • Small group facilitation 
  • Using questions effectively 
  • Facilitating effective feedback (learning conversations) 
  • Teaching and learning online  
  • Using technology to enhance learning 
• Teaching clinical skills 
  • Teaching and learning with patients  
  • The challenges of teaching and learning in the clinical environment 
  • Teaching a procedural skill 
• Reflective teaching practice. Evaluating your teaching. Developing an education portfolio 
• Principles of quality teaching - peer review and peer support of teaching 
• Mentorship, teaching networks and communities of practice 
• Professionalism and leadership in education – understanding and working effectively with diverse learning and working styles 
• Getting started in medical education scholarship (SoTL) and medical education research 
• The diverse roles of the clinical teacher and clinician educator – opportunities as a junior doctor and beyond 
• Careers in clinical and medical education – Medical education as a profession 

Responsibilities

LTT is a 5-week program consisting of online modules and resources, an online discussion forum, interactive workshops and small group sessions, and practical teaching roles as Student Teachers in the Medicine program.

Student Teachers actively apply principles of education and effective teaching - mentoring, teaching, and assessing their junior student peers within online and clinical workplace learning environments – with experiential learning (teaching responsibilities) running longitudinally throughout the program.

How to get involved

To be eligible, students must:

• be in enrolled in the MFAC3515 PRINT course
• have satisfactorily completed all Medicine program requirements, prior to the commencement of MFAC3515 PRINT
• be available to attend the Orientation and 5 x Workshop sessions of the LTT program
• be available to facilitate small group sessions and complete assessment tasks with their student learners
• complete the expression of interest form which will be distributed by MED BMedMD Teaching Support following the Phase 3 ICE.

Positions

Participant

Availability of activity

Completed during the MFAC3515 PRINT course