About the Educator Training Resources programme
The Educator Training Resources (ETR) programme contains elearning sessions for clinical educators and supervisors across the healthcare professions. This multiprofessional resource is applicable to those who are teaching, supervising and assessing learners in practice.
More information
The elearning sessions cover a wide range of topics and are structured under the 6 courses below:
1. Supervision of Learners
This course covers topics including how to work with learners to facilitate their learning, assess their needs, set their learning objectives and provide feedback. There are also sessions covering the support provided to learners in relation to their wellbeing, personal development and career development.
2. Teaching Methods
This course covers different teaching and facilitation methods to employ in practice. It includes sessions around clinical skills teaching, small group teaching, using simulation and involving patients in teaching.
3. Assessment and Progression
This course covers approaches to assessment and the principles of assessment along with practical video sessions on using specific assessment tools. It contains both multiprofessional and profession-specific sessions.
4. The Learning Environment
This course covers topics such as how to make the clinical environment safe and conducive to effective learning, the quality assurance of learning environments and ensuring patient safety.
5. Approaches in Education
This course explores the different approaches and ideas you may adopt in clinical education, including interprofessional education and the use of elearning.
Included within this course are the guidance for teaching online for healthcare educators elearning sessions, which were developed to help all healthcare educators plan and deliver online teaching sessions and move between face-to-face and online teaching effectively.
- Session 1 explores the opportunities, challenges and misconceptions associated with online learning. It offers guidance on the factors that need to be considered when planning your online teaching.
- Session 2 explores the practical aspects of teaching online, explains how to select an online platform and describes how online tools can enrich the learning experience for educators and students.
Healthcare educators who are interested in the Guidance for Teaching Online for Healthcare Educators sessions may also be interested in these further elearning resources:
- Supervision for Multi-professional Teams This resource aims to provide learners with information about the principles of supervision. It was developed for workplace supervisors as an alternative to single-day training.
- Video Group Clinics This resource was developed to provide an overview and a working knowledge of virtual group clinics in general practice, including the benefits of online consultations, delivery principles and outcomes.
6. Training for the foundation supervisor
This course covers general principles for those supervising non-training grade doctors. The sessions support the professional development of educators and include video-based practical modules on topics such as supervision, feedback, workplace-based assessments, dealing with doctors in difficulty and Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP).
Meet the team
Nerys Hâf Cater – Associate Education Lead, Multiprofessional Faculty Development, London and South East Professional Development Team
Professor Judy McKimm – Professor of Medical Education and Director of Strategic Educational Development, Swansea University
Harry Weber-Brown – TEL Education Content Development Programme Manager
How to access
To access any elfh programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
To view the Educator Training Resources programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Educator Training Resources programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My e-Learning section.
NHS healthcare staff in England – ESR
The Educator Training Resources programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this e-learning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the OpenAthens portal.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Educator Training Resources programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub Hub.
Select here for more information on the authorisations process to run reports on the learning activity of staff.
Select the following link for more information about CPD points.