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Clinical Teaching Resources

Here are some resources for health professionals who teach in a clinical setting

Learner Wellness - Support for Coping on Placement
The document will help you reflect on your experiences and obtain the support that you need to thrive, feel successful and promote overall wellness during placement, while ensuring learner and patient safety.
Preceptor Resource: Supporting Learners Through Challenging Experiences on Placement
The purpose of this document is to support learner and preceptor wellness and to optimize the placement experience. This document includes reflective questions, resources for setting up the placement and support for dealing with the emotionally and psychologically challenging experiences of placement.

Preceptor Education Program (PEP)
From Western University and Fanshawe College, PEP is an online interprofessional program that consists of eight interactive learning modules. The modules are available on this website, or through eCampus Ontario as an open education resource.

Tips for Supporting Internationally Educated Learners
Tips to optimize the learning experience for Internationally Educated Healthcare Learners (IEHLs) to thrive in healthcare teams.

Key tips for teaching in the clinical setting
The aim of this paper is to provide health professional students and early career health professionals involved in peer and near peer teaching, with an overview of approaches and key tips for teaching in the clinical setting.

Teaching and Learning Essentials (TaLE)
Do you supervise/precept learners in a busy work environment?
TaLE is a practical tool of three essential teaching and learning practices with actions to incorporate into your daily teaching practice whether in person or online. These essentials enable you to integrate care and teaching, improve the teaching and learning experience and promote the learner’s development.
The 4 Essentials of Learner Orientation
Orient learner(s) for clinical placement/rotation success! Use the 4 Essentials of Orientation to guide the discussion and further develop the learner(s)' sense of belonging and feeling part of the team.

Online learning in Health Professions Education. Part 1: Teaching and learning in online environments: AMEE Guide No. 161
This Guide will provide foundational concepts and practical strategies to support HPE educators and institutions toward advancing pedagogically informed use of online HPE.
Bernstein, S., Atkinson, A. R., & Martimianakis, M. A. (2013). Diagnosing the learner in difficulty. Pediatrics, 132(2), 210–212. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2013-1526
The article presents a practical approach to identifying, diagnosing, and managing the learner in difficulty.
Centre for Faculty Development
A partnership between Unity Health Toronto and the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Programs, activities and resources for teaching, education or academic work
HIRE IEHPS / PREP
University of Toronto
An online repository of educational resources for health professionals and employers.
MedEdPortal Journal of Online Teaching and Learning Resources
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal that promotes educational scholarship and dissemination of teaching and assessment resources in the health professions
Preceptor Education and Support in Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
Includes tips, articles, information, e-learning and online discussion forum
Preceptor eLearning Course – Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University
This course is designed to provide comprehensive information and support for preceptors (also referred to as Agency Field Instructors and Clinical Educators).
Steinert Y. (2013). The "problem" learner: whose problem is it? AMEE Guide No. 76. Medical teacher, 35(4), e1035–e1045. https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2013.774082
The article outlines a framework for working with "problem" learners. This includes strategies for identifying and defining learners' problems, designing and implementing appropriate interventions, and assuring due process.