We are delighted to announce the 2013 tEACH Train the Trainers courses and hope you will be able to join us. Please could you also circulate this email to all your colleagues and others who may be interested
The tEACH Train the Trainers subgroup offers support and training for trainers and teachers of communication skills in health care across all professional groups. This support is based upon a skills-based and evidence-based approach to teaching communication skills.
Our aim is to help as wide a range of teachers as possible – so we would like to help you whether you are a beginner trying to get started in your hospital, college, university, region or country or a more experienced teacher who is looking for help with teaching particular parts of your course. We also aim to provide help across all the different types of healthcare teaching – for example medicine, nursing, midwifery, dentistry, physiotherapy and for both undergraduate students and learners post-qualification.
We currently offer 4 different courses:
1. What to Teach in Communication Skills Teaching: Skills and Structure
2. Experiential Communication Skills Teaching
3. Curriculum Development in Communication Skills Teaching
4. Assessment in Communication Teaching
Each course can be taken separately and together they provide a comprehensive programme of training. The courses involve a mix of learning methods with a particular focus on the active involvement of participants. Participants are welcome to attend all four courses. Participants who are new to communication skills teaching are encouraged to attend in the order “what”, “experiential”, “curriculum”, “assessment”.
All the courses are held in English and care is taken to help participants for whom English is not their first language. Each course costs £595 (including accommodation and meals) and lasts 2 days. To date, all of these courses have been evaluated highly and participants have strongly agreed that they would recommend each course to a colleague and that they would sign up for another tEACH course.
The 2013 courses
Assessment in Communication Teaching
22nd – 23rd April 2013, Madingley Hall, Cambridge UK.
This course will be offered for the first time in 2013. The course is directed towards teachers of health professionals (for example medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, doctors) who wish to explore the underlying principles and practicalities of assessment in communication. It is suitable for teachers of a variety of experience of assessment. However, please note this course is not about detailed psychometrics.
What to Teach in Communication Skills Teaching: Skills and Structure
25th – 26th April 2013, Madingley Hall, Cambridge UK.
The course is directed towards teachers of health professional learners who wish to explore the underlying skills and structure of health care consultations. It is suitable for teachers of a variety of experience and is particularly suitable for those early on in the teaching careers.
Curriculum Development in Communication Skills Teaching
20th – 21st May 2013, Moller Centre, Cambridge UK.
This course is directed towards teachers of health professional learners who wish to develop a new curriculum or extend an existing curriculum. Please note, this course is not about facilitation skills or learning experiential communication skills teaching. The course will be highly interactive and participant centred and will enable individual participants to formulate concrete plans for the future in their own establishment.
Experiential Communication Skills Teaching
30th – 31st October 2013, Fondation Brocher, Geneva Switzerland
This is a two-day course focusing on experiential communication skills teaching. The course is directed towards teachers of health professionals. This course is highly interactive and experiential. The focus is on how to teach, especially facilitation of small groups, rather than what to teach or how to develop a curriculum.
For any further information, please contact Karen Enright ke242@medschl.cam.ac.uk
The tEACH Train the Trainers subgroup offers support and training for trainers and teachers of communication skills in health care across all professional groups. This support is based upon a skills-based and evidence-based approach to teaching communication skills.
Our aim is to help as wide a range of teachers as possible – so we would like to help you whether you are a beginner trying to get started in your hospital, college, university, region or country or a more experienced teacher who is looking for help with teaching particular parts of your course. We also aim to provide help across all the different types of healthcare teaching – for example medicine, nursing, midwifery, dentistry, physiotherapy and for both undergraduate students and learners post-qualification.
We currently offer 4 different courses:
1. What to Teach in Communication Skills Teaching: Skills and Structure
2. Experiential Communication Skills Teaching
3. Curriculum Development in Communication Skills Teaching
4. Assessment in Communication Teaching
Each course can be taken separately and together they provide a comprehensive programme of training. The courses involve a mix of learning methods with a particular focus on the active involvement of participants. Participants are welcome to attend all four courses. Participants who are new to communication skills teaching are encouraged to attend in the order “what”, “experiential”, “curriculum”, “assessment”.
All the courses are held in English and care is taken to help participants for whom English is not their first language. Each course costs £595 (including accommodation and meals) and lasts 2 days. To date, all of these courses have been evaluated highly and participants have strongly agreed that they would recommend each course to a colleague and that they would sign up for another tEACH course.
The 2013 courses
Assessment in Communication Teaching
22nd – 23rd April 2013, Madingley Hall, Cambridge UK.
This course will be offered for the first time in 2013. The course is directed towards teachers of health professionals (for example medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, doctors) who wish to explore the underlying principles and practicalities of assessment in communication. It is suitable for teachers of a variety of experience of assessment. However, please note this course is not about detailed psychometrics.
What to Teach in Communication Skills Teaching: Skills and Structure
25th – 26th April 2013, Madingley Hall, Cambridge UK.
The course is directed towards teachers of health professional learners who wish to explore the underlying skills and structure of health care consultations. It is suitable for teachers of a variety of experience and is particularly suitable for those early on in the teaching careers.
Curriculum Development in Communication Skills Teaching
20th – 21st May 2013, Moller Centre, Cambridge UK.
This course is directed towards teachers of health professional learners who wish to develop a new curriculum or extend an existing curriculum. Please note, this course is not about facilitation skills or learning experiential communication skills teaching. The course will be highly interactive and participant centred and will enable individual participants to formulate concrete plans for the future in their own establishment.
Experiential Communication Skills Teaching
30th – 31st October 2013, Fondation Brocher, Geneva Switzerland
This is a two-day course focusing on experiential communication skills teaching. The course is directed towards teachers of health professionals. This course is highly interactive and experiential. The focus is on how to teach, especially facilitation of small groups, rather than what to teach or how to develop a curriculum.
For any further information, please contact Karen Enright ke242@medschl.cam.ac.uk