Recognising Teaching Excellence Workshops
Recognising Teaching Excellence workshops are all about YOUR career and accomplishments as a medical educator. If you are a teacher, researcher or manager who is actively involved in the education of medical students and doctors, and if you care about improving your professional practice and developing your skills as a medical educator, then this course will offer you a constructive, confidential and structured environment in which to reflect on your portfolio of achievements and help prepare you to take the next steps in your career.
Attending a workshop will:
- Give you a thorough understanding of the Professional Standards for Medical Educators and enable you to start mapping your skills and achievements against them;
- Help you reflect on your achievements and skills in medical education and plan your future career development;
- Provide an opportunity for you to assemble and organise your evidence for appraisal and revalidation;
- Encourage you to practise and learn new skills in professional writing, including how to write reflectively, and how to make assertive and realistic claims for your career accomplishments;
- Offer new ways in which you can recognise, reflect on and articulate your professional values as a teacher, scholar and manager in medical education;
- Develop your confidence in preparing an application for fellowship or membership of the Academy of Medical Educators; and
- Help you craft your application ( you will get even more out of attending a workshop if you have made a start on drafting.
The course content covers:
- Standards and accreditation for medical education professionals;
- Definitions of educational scholarship;
- Reflective and descriptive approaches to professional writing;
- Review of the six themes of the Professional Standards for Medical Educators;
- The Academy of Medical Educators’ Recognition Scheme and, in particular, the distinctions made between “commitment”, “achievements” and “significant achievements” in medical education.
The course fee includes:
- Your place on the course, which will be facilitated by at least one active Academy assessor;
- All materials and resources, including handouts;
- Personalised advice on your career portfolio and application;
- A certificate of attendance plus CPD points where appropriate;
- Reduced application fees for the Academy Professional Recognition Scheme.
The Professional Standards for Medical Educators guides the assessment of all applications and you are strongly encouraged to benchmark yourself against these standards – you will practise this in the workshop.
Please note that the Academy of Medical Educators makes every effort to ensure that the information on courses published on its web site, and in its publications, is up-to-date and accurate. However we reserve the right to make changes to this information without notice.
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Last updated 19 January 2011