UK Clinicians: Level Up Your Teaching with a Portfolio-Ready Teach the Teacher Course

Clinical knowledge evolves fast—but so do expectations of clinicians as educators. Whether you’re supervising juniors on the ward, delivering departmental teaching, mentoring students, or running online sessions, the ability to teach clearly and confidently has become a key professional skill. For many UK doctors, teaching is also a core part of specialty training applications and portfolio development.

That’s where this course comes in.

Our Teach the Teacher course is a clinician-led, practical online programme designed to help you teach more effectively and evidence it properly, so your teaching doesn’t just feel better, it looks stronger on paper too.

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Why teaching skills matter more than ever

Healthcare is busy, and clinical teaching often happens in short bursts, between ward rounds, clinics, and on-calls. Yet learners still need structure, clarity, and feedback. Strong teaching skills help you:

• Improve learner performance and confidence (which supports patient safety)

• Communicate more effectively with colleagues and multidisciplinary teams

• Develop leadership and supervision skills expected of senior trainees

• Build credible portfolio evidence for training and fellowship applications

In short: teaching well helps patients, helps your team, and helps your career.

What makes this Teach the Teacher course different

This isn’t a generic education theory course. It’s designed around the realities of UK clinical practice and the common pitfalls that clinicians face when teaching:

• not enough time to prepare

• mixed-ability groups

• “awkward” questions and silent rooms

• difficulty collecting feedback

• uncertainty about what counts as good portfolio evidence

We focus on practical methods you can reuse repeatedly—plus a simple approach to capturing evidence and reflection without adding admin burden.

What you’ll learn

The workshop is built around real clinical teaching scenarios, including bedside teaching, small-group tutorials, departmental teaching, and online delivery. You’ll learn how to:

• plan teaching quickly using simple structure and clear outcomes

• explain complex topics in a way learners actually retain

• keep sessions interactive (even online) using questioning and facilitation techniques

• give feedback confidently and constructively

• manage common challenges (mixed levels, time pressure, difficult dynamics)

• evaluate your teaching efficiently and demonstrate improvement

• translate teaching activity into portfolio-ready evidence for applications

Who the course is for

This course is suitable for:

• Foundation doctors, IMT/ACCS, GP trainees, specialty registrars, SAS doctors and IMGs

• Other healthcare professionals involved in teaching, supervision or training

• Anyone aiming to build a clearer teaching profile for specialty training applications, ARCP, interviews, or educational roles

If you’ve taught before but feel it’s been “unstructured,” or you’re unsure how to document it properly, you’ll benefit immediately.

Ready to strengthen your teaching—and your portfolio?

Teaching is one of the most valuable skills you can develop as a clinician. It improves patient care, supports your team, and strengthens your professional profile. This course gives you a practical, clinician-focused pathway to teaching with more confidence, and evidencing it in a way that supports your next career step.

Enroll today and take the next step towards being a more effective educator—with teaching evidence that genuinely works for UK applications.