Preceptorship and Clinical Teaching

1. Program overview

Nursing and allied health programmes turn away tens of thousands of qualified applicants annually, and a leading constraint is the shortage of people able to precept and teach clinically. Yet almost no short course exists for it. This course covers the preceptor role: assessing a learner's starting point, structuring learning within real clinical work, effective questioning, giving feedback that changes practice, assessing competence defensibly, managing the struggling or failing learner, and protecting patient safety while someone learns.

2. Why this program

• Addresses a documented workforce bottleneck.
• Teaching within real clinical work, not a classroom.
• Includes managing the failing learner.
• Competence assessment taught defensibly.

3. Who it is for

Nurse · Allied Health · Physician · Pharmacist · Educator Trainer · Radiographer

4. Program objectives

• Assess a learner's starting competence and learning needs
• Structure teaching within the flow of real clinical work
• Use questioning to develop clinical reasoning
• Give feedback that changes practice
• Assess and document competence defensibly
• Manage a struggling or failing learner fairly

5. Learning outcomes

• Assess a described learner's competence level and learning need
• Plan a teaching opportunity within a described clinical shift
• Construct questions that develop reasoning rather than recall
• Deliver structured feedback for a described performance gap
• Document a competence assessment defensibly
• Plan a supportive response to a described struggling learner

6. Curriculum

1. Module 1: The Preceptor Role

   • The Preceptor Role

2. Module 2: Starting Where the Learner Is

   • Starting Where the Learner Is

3. Module 3: Teaching in Real Work

   • Teaching in Real Work

4. Module 4: Questioning and Reasoning

   • Questioning and Reasoning

5. Module 5: Feedback That Lands

   • Feedback That Lands

6. Module 6: Assessment and the Failing Learner

   • Assessment and the Failing Learner

7. Duration and structure

Total study hours: 4 — 3.25h content + 0.75h assessment. Duration is expressed in study hours only.

9. What you receive

This certificate confirms completion of Preceptorship and Clinical Teaching. Duration is expressed in study hours.

10. Delivery format

Self-paced · start any time · any device · lifetime access to the enrolled version.