McMaster Modules

Learning objectives:

• Have an increased understanding of feedback
• Identify barriers to its delivery
• Use practical strategies that can promote more effective learning by learners

Learning objectives:

• To address how clinical teachers can simultaneously provide effective educational experiences and quality patient care
• To provide educationally sound and time-efficient strategies and tools that facilitate and enhance teaching moments

Learning objectives:

• Consider strategies to encourage adaptive responses by learners when errors do occur
• Model the importance of recognizing and acknowledging errors
• Promote ways to reduce risk of errors in the future

Learning objectives:

• Help preceptors make an appropriate and timely assessment of the learner’s difficulty, including the learning environment
• Assist in developing a plan with the learner to facilitate improvement
• Improve communication with the learner and the educational program, especially when performance is below standard

Learning objectives:

• Review characteristics of evaluation and why this process is important
• Identify difficulties experienced in the evaluation process
• Provide a framework and strategies to guide effective evaluation of learners

Learning objectives:

• Provide strategies for preparing the practice site for a learner’s arrival
• Highlight the elements of an effective orientation program
• Outline the development of learning plan that incorporates such issues as program, practice and learner objectives, and details of how learning and teaching will occur during the placement

Learning objectives:

• Understand/clarify the past experience /background that IMGs bring to the learning situation and how preceptors can capitalize on this
• Provide some practical strategies for dealing with language barriers and improving communication skills
• Help IMGs adapt to the Canadian teaching and learning environment and clarify expectations for IMGs regarding the roles of learner and clinician

Learning objectives:

• Reflect on their own interprofessional collaborative behavior and effectively role model this behavior to learners
• Facilitate learners’ understanding regarding the scope of practice/role of other professionals
• Identify opportunities to teach collaborative care and to address structural barriers

Learning objectives:

• Understand the contextual nature of professional behavior and the pivotal role of clinician teachers in the development of professionalism among their learners
• Provide educationally appropriate opportunities for learning the principles of professionalism in clinical settings
• Develop effective strategies for dealing with unprofessional behaviors of learners during a clinical placement

Learning objectives:

• Understand the contextual nature of conflict management and the pivotal role of clinical teachers in the development of conflict management strategies among their learners
• Provide Educationally appropriate opportunities for applying the principles of conflict management in clinical settings
• Develop effective strategies for dealing with the type of conflict that learners might experience during a clinical placement