Professional Development and Upskilling

These workshops allow you to expand your theoretical knowledge and practical skills in workplace-based clinical supervision. The facilitators help you contextualize your learning and promote discussion of issues that enhance your confidence as an effective clinical supervisor.

Topics covered include:

• The unique factors of workplace-based learning and teaching including essential planning.
• Engaging with and teaching learners using proven tools. The One Minute Preceptor.
• Promoting learning through feedback.
• Developing as a supervisor through further professional development activities.
• The four-step method of teaching a clinical skill, demonstrating how this model fosters effective learning.
• Supporting learners in difficulty: how do you address the situation of a learner who appears hostile, is lacking in confidence or acting unprofessionally?

NT RTH and Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine teamed over the years to offer Point of Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) workshops in Nhulunbuy & Alice Springs. The workshop program and delivery are led by Dr Nadi Pandithage and supported by additional facilitators and local sonographers of the regions. The workshops aim to empower doctors with the confidence to perform PoCUS effectively and efficiently. With the help of this training program, doctors can take a significant step towards improving patient outcomes by accurately diagnosing and treating patients in a timelier manner.

Upcoming workshops:

• Alice Springs – 6-7 September 2024
  

The NT RTH administers an organic ‘leaky pipeline’ and a capacity building approach to mentoring which includes delivery of professional development opportunities for NT medical clinicians and for our stakeholder’s formal matching programs.

The Hub offers valuable programs that provide essential interpersonal, problem-solving skills and networking opportunities that supports the current and future workforce to become effective mentors and mentees. In addition to collaborating with local expertise, the Hub has sponsored workshops delivered by the Pam McLean Centre (recognised leaders in clinical communication training) and Mentoring on the Run.

2023 saw the launch of the NT Clinical Academy, an NT centric community of medical clinical educators. The Academy will provide collegiate and professional development support for its members, who share a love of teaching, learning and research.

The Academy welcomes members who facilitate health learning experiences from the breadth of health services in the Northern Territory and is accessible to all medical clinical educators regardless of if they are located within urban, regional, and remote practices. The Academy will work towards increasing opportunities for collaboration with innovative mechanisms to help learning in all settings, events are inclusive and will be hosted regionally and Territory wide.

NT RTH engages the Pam McLean Centre (experts in clinical communication) to deliver a range of workshops such as:

Breaking bad news - these advanced workshops are designed to explore the difficult issues involved with telling somebody bad news about diagnosis, prognosis or the death of a family member. Imparting this type of bad news to a patient, or their family, is extremely difficult and often distressing for everybody involved. These workshops are designed to empower participants with tools and approaches that can help them to empathically approach these issues. The workshops build on a body of postdoctoral research conducted by the Centre.

Difficult conversations - a workshop designed for interns embarking on their career as a doctor, equipping them with some clinical communication techniques to improve their skills and confidence in the clinical context.