The Clinician Education Course was first piloted in 2006 and modified based on an extensive evaluation. The course is run annually in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) and started off as a a joint project between the EDU, FHS and Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED).
The course is a CPD accredited course with 13 points per module and 5 points for ethics. A certificate of attendance is awarded. The contact time for the course is 2 ½ hours per week and expected time on reading and tasks is about 2 - 3 hours per week.
Overall aim of the course:
To provide clinical teaching staff the opportunity to develop and improve their understanding of, and practical skills in teaching, learning and assessment. This short course is specifically designed to take into account the context of clinical educators. However, as with all short courses, we can only do this to a limited extent. The key emphasis therefore will be on developing an understanding of the important principles that underpin good practice - so as to enable you to reflect critically on your practice, and to further develop educator skills in a clinical context. In this way, we hope to deepen your ability to act as a 'critical reflective practitioner'.
Structure of the course:
The course deals with Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Clinician Educators in a Primary Health Care (PHC)–led Curriculum and consists of 3short courses (modules) of 6 weeks each.
The Course Coordinator is Prof Louis Reynolds and interested parties can send all correspondence to Nondumiso Mginywa (Tel:021–650 6644 or Nondumiso.Mginywa@uct.ac.za.