How Our Teach the Teacher Courses Help You as an Educational and Clinical Supervisor
Updated: Oct 13
Supervision is one of the most influential aspects of clinical training, yet it is often the least formally taught. Whether you’re acting as an educational supervisor, clinical supervisor, or simply the “senior on the floor,” you face the same challenge: how do you supervise well, consistently, and safely, without adding an unsustainable workload?
Our Teach the Teacher courses at The Clinicians' Roadmap are designed for this exact reality: busy clinical settings, limited time, high standards, and the need to document your educator development credibly. Choose our interactive live online workshop with complimentary self-paced learning, or complete the self-paced programme independently.
Supervision in Practice: What Learners Actually Need from You
Supervision typically divides into two overlapping lanes:
Educational supervision: This focuses on long-term development, including goals, progress, evidence, reflection, and trajectory across a placement.
Clinical supervision: This provides in-the-moment support, such as safe decisions, prioritisation, escalation, debriefs, and feedback during real work.
Most clinicians end up doing both, often within the same shift. This course is designed to help you build a repeatable supervision approach that fits seamlessly into real clinical workflows.
What Makes Our Teach the Teacher Courses Different
Many teaching courses tend to be either too theoretical or too generic. Our courses stand out because they are:
Flexible: Attend an interactive live online workshop without needing to travel, or study independently through our structured self-paced programme.
Practical and engaging: Benefit from live discussion and personalised feedback, or develop your knowledge through structured educational materials, clinical examples and reflective activities.
Clinically grounded: Delivered by UK-based clinicians who understand the realities of teaching and supervision in the NHS.
Educationally credible: Developed and facilitated by clinicians with postgraduate qualifications in medical education.
Fairly priced: Transparent costs without inflated fees.
The Supervision Skills You’ll Build in Teach the Teacher
1) Running Supervision Conversations with Structure (Without Making Them Long)
Many supervision meetings drift into informal chat or reactive firefighting. You’ll learn how to structure a supervision conversation so it remains focused and useful:
Setting expectations early
Agreeing on goals
Identifying barriers
Defining actions
Documenting a clear summary for future reference
This approach is relevant to both formal educational supervisor meetings and quick end-of-shift check-ins.
2) Giving Feedback That Actually Changes Performance
Feedback often fails for two reasons: it’s either too vague (“good job”) or too confrontational (“you need to improve”). We teach practical frameworks you can use immediately:
Making feedback specific and fair
Keeping it learner-centred without diluting standards
Handling defensiveness and maintaining a productive conversation
Converting feedback into an action plan that’s proportionate and measurable
3) Turning Everyday Clinical Work into High-Quality Teaching
Supervisors are constantly teaching, often without labelling it as such. This includes:
Ward rounds
Clinics
Procedures
Handovers
Quick debriefs after complex decisions
You’ll develop simple, repeatable ways to teach in the moment, ensuring learners leave with clarity, not confusion.
4) Supporting Learners in Difficulty with Confidence (and Professionalism)
One of the hardest parts of supervision is recognising when someone is struggling and responding early, kindly, and appropriately. The course equips you to:
Spot early warning signs
Structure supportive conversations
Set clear expectations and improvement goals
Document your approach professionally
This supports both learner wellbeing and patient safety, without turning you into an administrator.
CPD and Evidence You Can Actually Use
This course is designed to leave you with credible development as a clinical educator, not just “attendance.” You will receive:
Live online workshop: 6 CPD hours through interactive, synchronous learning.
Self-paced programme: 12 additional CPD hours through structured independent learning and reflective activities, included with the live course or available separately.
Optional assessed assignment: A further 6 CPD hours, complimentary for live-course participants.
Reflection prompts and frameworks that simplify writing up what you’ve learned for:
- Appraisal
- ARCP
- Teaching portfolios
- Educator role development
- Interview examples (e.g., “tell us about a time you gave feedback / supported a struggling colleague”)
Who This Course Helps Most
Teach the Teacher is particularly useful if you are:
Starting (or growing into) an educational/clinical supervisor role
Supervising medical students, foundation doctors, residents, or MDT colleagues
Trying to improve feedback conversations and learner engagement
Building educator credibility for progression, applications, or consultant/GP roles
Looking for practical tools that work under real clinical time pressure
The Outcome: Supervision That Is Clearer, Kinder, and More Effective
By the end of the course, you should be able to supervise with:
More structure
Greater confidence in feedback
Increased consistency across learners
Better documentation
Less stress around “difficult conversations”
A clearer identity as a clinician-educator
Ready to Develop Your Supervision Skills?
Develop practical supervision frameworks you can apply on your very next shift. Choose our Live Online + Self-Paced programme (£150) for interactive learning and personalised feedback, or our Self-Paced Only course (£100) for flexible, independent study. Both pathways support your development as a clinical educator and provide valuable CPD evidence.
For more information, visit The Clinicians' RoadMap.
