Medics Academy

About the Course

This course will deliver training in teaching with a certificate issued upon completion of the course. The first day will be a live session and the remaining days will be made available to complete in your own time. 

The course dates are:

• Saturday May 18th 2024
• Saturday June 15th 2024
• Saturday July 20th 2024
• Saturday August 17th 2024
• Saturday September 21st 2024
• Saturday October 19th 2024
• Saturday November 2nd 2024
• Saturday November 9th 2024
• Saturday December 21st 2024

Once you have purchased the course, you will need to select the date you would like to do the course. Instructions are inside this course about how to select the date. 

By the end of this course you will:

• Appreciate the different environments where medical education is delivered
• Have an understanding of simulation as an educational technique and the learning theories that support it
• Draw upon different teaching methods to suit a given teaching environment
• Understand factors involved with developing and delivering technology enhanced learning
• Develop a framework for effective planning of teaching sessions
• Review and refine methods of effective teaching session evaluation
• Become aware of the different careers in medical education
• Have an opportunity to deliver a teaching session
• Be able to write an article to publish your evaluation of delivered teaching
• Understand key theories of learning and how they apply to medical education
• Have reviewed a variety of presentation styles in order to develop your own presentation skills

Who is this course for:

• All foundation and specialty doctors
• SAS doctors
• Consultants 
• Fourth and final-year medical students
• Allied health professionals

Regarding training programme applications and points resulting from undertaking any of our programmes, the general advice we give is the ultimate decision and responsibility for awarding points and jobs in the NHS is the responsibility of the appointing body. Those bodies have a tendency to change their criteria year on year. Therefore, our advice is to look at what has happened before as an indicator of how things are likely to be when you submit your application.

Our programme has had a  significant number of trainees get the points they were aiming for, using the programmes we run. However there were a small number of cases where there were inconsistencies for surgical training only. You will need to make a judgment as to whether you believe our courses and programmes will be beneficial and you should also make a judgment as to whether the type of support we tend to offer and the history or our team lines up with your expectations. We aim to provide a significant amount of personal support to any clinician that undertakes one of our programmes. 

The course is mapped against our accredited Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Practice, Management and Education, specifically the modules in Technology Enhanced Learning and Applied Clinical Education. On successful completion of this course, participants will have their registration fee deducted from the Postgraduate Certificate as well as being eligible for receiving a significant additional bursary. This is a very cost-effective way of starting your journey as a medical educator and build up to your postgraduate certificate. The postgraduate certificate also has modules in Leadership to cover that aspect of your specialty training applications.

https://link.medics.academy/MA-pg-cert-application

Here are all the options for the Training in Teaching course currently available: 

1 Day: https://www.medics.academy/courses/training-in-teaching-1-day 

2 Day: https://www.medics.academy/courses/training-in-teaching-2-day 

3 Day: https://www.medics.academy/courses/training-in-teaching-3-day  

10 Day: https://www.medics.academy/courses/traininginteaching-10day

2 Day Online Asynchronous Course: https://www.medics.academy/courses/training-in-teaching-2-day-course-online