Ten RVTS supervisors joined us for the workshop in Townsville. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedules to come along and share your wisdom and experience. All the supervisors helped out with the emergency scenarios and the exam preparation session and the feedback from the registrars was that they learnt lots in these small group sessions, so thank you.
Particular thanks to:
- George Cerchez for planning and chairing our hypothetical.
- Don Bowley and Louis Peachey for their assistance in the aeromedical retrieval day.
- Louis Peachey, Don Bowley and Dennis Pashen for taking us through some useful local anaesthetic blocks.
There were two "teacher training" sessions. One was on the principles of adult learning and how these apply to patients, colleagues, as well as students and registrars. The second was on assessing professionalism using multi-source feedback and the mini-clinical examination.
The latter two are mandatory parts of the ACRRM Fellowship and RVTS is discussing introducing these to the program both for formative (seeing how registrars are progressing) and summative (are registrars up to Fellowship standard) assessment.
If you would like a copy of the presentation or to discuss these sessions please contact Susan Wearne on 0408 806 501.