Undertake clinical teaching activities

At the early registrar level it is expected that a prevocational doctor will have acquired clinical teaching experiences and skills.

This task describes a number of opportunities achievable by the end of PGY3. 

  • Regularly teaches medical students and junior doctors; nursing staff if asked
  • Supervises junior doctors with (technical) skills
  • Has completed 'Teaching on the Run'
  • Notes opportunities, e.g. ward patients, M & M, case presentations
  • Presents at journal club/hospital teaching
  • Undertaken some College and post-graduate courses
  • PGY 1
  • PGY 2
  • PGY 3

  • Collaboration and teamwork

    • Establish respectful good working relationships with team members and other healthcare professionals

  • Judgement and clinical decision making

    • Can explain indications, contraindications and risks involved in decision making regarding common procedures
  • Professionalism

    Comply with the legal requirements of being a doctor

  • Scholarship and teaching

    • Teaching is based on adult learning principles
    • Plan educational activities to address the needs of all learners
    • Assist with training of medical students in clinical examination and simple skill
    • Evaluate and learn from feedback regarding own teaching
    • Determine each patient’s level of health literacy and use available resources to deliver health education

  • Collaboration and teamwork

    • Participate in shared decision-making activity involving patients, families and relevant health professionals, such as development of a care plan noting reference to open disclosure in ‘Communication’ section

  • Judgement and clinical decision making

    • Able to explain processes of diagnostic reasoning

  • Scholarship and teaching

    • Develop a curriculum suitable for teaching medical students over one term
    • Use varied approaches to teaching small and large groups; apply different learning styles and different technologies to teaching/learning activities
    • Lead the training of junior doctors in clinical examination and teaching of simple skills using a teaching plan
    • Provide constructive, timely and specific feedback to interns based on observation of a junior’s performance, encouraging them to reflect on their own learning

  • Technical expertise

    • Assist with teaching junior staff

  • Collaboration and teamwork

    • Able to coach or supervise juniors, as required by the clinical task
  • Communication
    • Set an appropriate tone for any communication with patients and their families, peers and colleagues

  • Judgement and clinical decision making

    • Able to explain decision making while performing a simple procedure
  • Medical expertise
    • Present complex cases effectively to senior medical staff and other health professionals
  • Professionalism
    • Act as a role model of professional behaviour in the workplace

  • Scholarship and teaching

    • Use a range of resources in educational planning
      • Portfolio analysis
      • Incorporate teaching into clinical work
      • Undertake induction of medical students, peers and juniors
      • Identify issues of stress relating to educational activities and promote strategies for positive change
    • Educate other team members about procedures/medications used within the clinical unit
    • Identify areas of improvement in teaching/ learning activities and work with Unit Head/ Director of Surgery to implement change
    • Adapt level of supervision to learner’s competence and confidence

  • Technical expertise

    • Able to demonstrate that basic essential surgical skills constructs are well established
    • Able to teach basic Essential Surgical Skills constructs to juniors and supervise their clinical application established