Develop a teaching plan
The registrar’s designated supervisor is responsible for ensuring the registrar receives their scheduled uninterrupted teaching time, whether from them or another member of the supervisory team. The scheduled uninterrupted teaching time for each level of registrar is detailed in the Teaching time requirements.
In addition to the scheduled uninterrupted teaching, activities that make up the balance of the mandated teaching time for GPT1 and GPT2 registrars may include:
- orientation to the training site
- opportunistic and planned case discussions during and at the end of the day
- group teaching sessions with other registrars and students
- procedural skills education
- cultural education
- provision of feedback
- completion of assessments
- review of a ReCEnT report
- evaluation of teaching.
Most of the scheduled sessions should be one-on-one teaching that addresses your registrar's individual learning needs, for example, observation of consultations, review of medical records, feedback, workplace-based assessment and critical incident review.
Not all scheduled teaching sessions need to be delivered by the designated supervisor. For example, a registrar with learning needs in the initial management of diabetes might sit in with a diabetes educator for an initial consultation with a patient recently diagnosed with diabetes.
How each training site coordinates the provision of teaching will reflect the number and type of learners and educators at the site. In larger training sites, it is particularly useful to have a calendar of scheduled teaching activities, a teaching plan, that is used to record delivered education, required assessment activities, and activities planned to address an identified learning need.