Module - Contemporary Mentoring & Assessment in Diverse Clinical Environments (Level 7)

Course Overview

The module aims to provide registered healthcare professionals with the opportunity to examine theories which underpin approaches to learning, facilitation, assessment and support in practice-based settings. This will enable them to apply their skills and effectively fulfil their role as a mentor/practice educator, practice supervisor or practice assessor in professional practice taking into account their responsibility and accountability for teaching and learning.

On this course you will...

• Explore and review, with an evidence base, management, organisational issues, working relationships and inter-professional team working, of everyone involved in effective mentoring placements, which recognises the diversity of all individuals.
• Critique and apply the theories of learning and teaching and contemporary approaches to mentorship to facilitate learning within practice based settings.
• Critically analyse and evaluate the principles of assessment in diverse clinical environments with consideration of leadership, accountability, responsibility and failure to fail with reference to your own professional code.
• Critically analyse how learning from this module has transformed your understanding of your practice.