Educators and Supervisors
Educators and supervisors are our most important resource, ensuring that postgraduate doctors, dentists and public health practitioners are receiving the right training and support, in the right place, at the right time.
Trainers may be managing as a Head of School or Training Programme Director, planning local delivery as a College Tutor, or appraising and supervising as a Clinical or Educational supervisor. Regional advisers to the Colleges add additional local expertise and national context. Each of these roles has a job description, partly to create focus and accountability, but mostly to help to guide and develop people working within a complex environment. Some trainers extend this by adding an educational qualification to refine their practical teaching experience. If the answers to questions are not found within these job descriptions, advice is always readily available from the Associate Postgraduate Deans, the Deputy Postgraduate Deans, and the Postgraduate Dean.
Service work should be a continual source of experiential learning, supported by well defined non-clinical activity based around delivery of the curriculum.
These webpages provide our postgraduate educators and supervisors with a range of information to support you in your educational role, including guidance and advice, and deanery-funded professional development opportunities.