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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Faculty Development involves a wide range of activities that healthcare institutions undertake to assist faculty, preceptors, supervisors, clinical educators, field instructors, and status appointees in their respective roles. These activities are meant to enhance an individual’s knowledge and skills in administration, teaching, leadership, education, and research. To help with that, the University of Toronto offers its Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational online course.
The Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational programme is an education and teacher-training course. The training highlights the foundational areas of teaching and learning for teachers who train health professionals. They can apply this programme’s learnings in their practice and teaching context.
The four-week Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational certification course is the first in a three-course series offered by the University of Toronto. The two continuation courses are Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 2 – Strategies, and Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 3 – Professionalism. A verified credential to certify your expertise in the domain is also accessible.
The Highlights
- Learn for free
- Four-week course
- Self-paced online programme
- One-two hours of weekly effort
- University of Toronto programme
- Video lectures and applied activities
- Transcripts in English
- Shareable completion certificate available for purchase
- Education and Teacher Training Introductory programme
Programme Offerings
- free course
- University of Toronto programme
- Self-paced online programme
- Four-week course
- One-two hours of weekly effort
- video lectures
- Applied activities
- Transcripts in English
- Verified shareable certificate available for purchase
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 4187 | yes | University of Toronto, Toronto |
- edX offers the Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational program for free.
- Only those who require the course completion certificate have to pay the certification fee.
The Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational program fee structure
Training | Fee in INR |
Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational program | NA. |
Certification Fee | Rs.4,187 |
Eligibility Criteria
The Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational training is suitable for those who are involved in teaching and training health professionals.
What you will learn
After completing the entire Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational certification syllabus, learners should be proficient in:
- Orienting the learner
- Learner-centred teaching
- Providing effective feedback
Admission Details
Step 1: Detailed information about Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational online course is available on the official edX website. The link below will take you there. https://www.edx.org/course/health-professional-teaching-skills-level-1-founda
Step 2: After you have read the training details, proceed with the ‘Enroll’ button and reach the registration page.
Step 3: Furnish your details (country/state/region of residence, full name, email address, etc.) to create an account on edX or link your existing Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple account to edX and register directly. Proceed with ‘sign in’ to fill in your credentials if you have a pre-existing edX account.
Step 4: Complete the email verification process and start learning right away.
Application Details
Aspirants are not required to fill and submit any application form to apply to Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 1 – Foundational programme. All they need to do is start a brand-new edX account by offering your first name, email address, surname, country or region of residence, and create a public username and password for your account.
The Syllabus
- Components of effective learner orientation
- Suggest a strategy for orienting learners to their own clinical environment(s).
- Defines and describes ‘Checking In’ and its relevance for learning.
- Describe methods of checking in with learners and demonstrate skills used for ‘checking in’.
- How to provide effective feedback to learners.
- Emphasis will be placed on the elements of effective feedback and helpful techniques that can be used in practice.
- Adding value to feedback.
- It will stress the importance of both corrective and reinforcing feedback and will introduce three types of feedback.
Instructors
University of Toronto, Toronto Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
After completing this course, you should take up the Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 2 – Strategies, and Health Professional Teaching Skills – Level 3 – Professionalism courses.
The University of Toronto offers this course and both the continuation courses.
No. It is an introductory programme in Education and Teacher Training.
Professor Karen Leslie (Department of Pediatrics) and Assistant Professor Marcus Law (Department of Family and Community Medicine) from the University of Toronto are the course instructors.