How Our Live Online Teach the Teacher Course Helps You as an Educational and Clinical Supervisor

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 live online Teach the Teacher course at The Clinician's Roadmap is designed for this exact reality: busy clinical settings, limited time, high standards, and the need to document your educator development credibly.

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 This Course Different (and Why “Live Online” Matters)

Many teaching courses tend to be either too theoretical or too generic. Our course stands out because it is:

• Live online: Attend from anywhere without losing a day to travel.

• Small and interactive: Engage in practical frameworks and discuss real scenarios, rather than passively consuming content.

• Clinically grounded: Delivered by UK-based clinicians who understand the realities of teaching and supervision in the NHS.

• Educationally credible: 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:

• 6 CPD as standard

• An optional included written assignment to extend learning and evidence (taking it to 12 CPD)

• 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 Join a Live Online Session?

If you want supervision frameworks you can apply on your very next shift, plus CPD evidence that stands up professionally, our live online Teach the Teacher course is designed for you.

For more information, visit The Clinicians' RoadMap.