Facilitating Learning in a Healthcare Practice

Entry requirements

• Qualified dental professionals.
• Applicants should hold a current degree-level qualification or show evidence of the ability to benefit from study at Level 7.
• Be in current employment in a relevant healthcare setting.
• Have access to learners in their discipline or associated disciplines eg a student who is a dentist may support the learning of other dental care professionals such as dental nurses or dental hygienists.
• A detailed admissions procedure will be forwarded on application.

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

About the course

Gain skills to enable healthcare professionals to develop the healthcare team through effective facilitation of learning within and outside of the workplace.

This is a part-time course that takes place online over approximately six months; including five days of teaching and associated pre-session and post-session requirements.

You’ll be part of a wider learning community aimed at supporting you to analyse, plan and lead strategies to enhance the quality of healthcare settings as a learning environment. You’ll also develop knowledge and application of educational theories to plan, deliver and evaluate learning activities in a range of educational settings.

WHY STUDY WITH US

• The course content is delivered through the Microsoft Teams platform, which allows for easy communication with your tutors and other students.
• You will be assessed by a Work Based Learning Portfolio, which you complete and update throughout the qualification.
• As you progress you’ll develop critical knowledge. As well as an understanding of the theory, practice, context and associated research applied to dental education.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You'll have multiple opportunities to learn about educational best practices from dental professionals who are experts in their fields.
• You will have the benefit of close support and supervision at all stages of the course.
• On completion of the course, you'll be well placed to influence the role and the research of dental education inpatient care at local, regional and national levels.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ASSESSMENT

Assessment is through completion of a work-based learning portfolio including an educational audit and an annotated bibliography.

The aim of the module is to enable health care practitioners to critically analyse the requirements for effective facilitation of learning within and outside the workplace and selectively and appropriately apply principles of best practice to teaching, supporting learning, assessing and giving feedback to others.

Each study day will carry an expectation for students to complete set tasks, these will contribute to the final assessments. Morning sessions will be online synchronous with your tutor and peers, post-session requirements will be asynchronous. It is advised you book the full day to complete the study requirements to meet guided learning hours.

FUTURE CAREERS

Facilitating Learning in Healthcare Practice is for general dental practitioners who want to go on to be educational supervisors of foundation year dentists.

It is also for general practitioners, in an educational role, and other healthcare professionals who would like to develop their career in supporting the learning of others.

Fees and funding

For more information on fees and funding, please visit our Facilitating Learning in Healthcare Practice course page.