Continuing Professional Development

1. Inter-professional Education

Good inter-professional teamwork brings better patient outcome, but teaching and assessing it remains an enigma. At SKH, we strive to provide continuing professional development in the inter-professional format. Inter-professional education (IPE) has been shown to improve patient outcomes and should be priorities in the clinical environment.

SKH Education Office organises the annual IPE Day, to promote inter-professional education and care. For example, the 2022 IPE Day theme is “Joy in Teaching”.

2. Sengkang Clinics in Education Enquiry (SCEE)

Education Office hosts a monthly SCEE on a wide range of topics from health professions education pedagogies to education research with the vision of reaching to an inter-professional audience. The SCEEs aim to deliver mini-sized educational pearls and laser-focused topics to educators. The SCEE builds an inter-professional platform for cross-fertilisation of ideas, enables health professions education research to take off, advances clinical education and builds a culture and stronghold of health professions education at SKH.

Fundamentals of Clinical Education (FCE)

Sengkang General Hospital Education Office collaborated with Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health Divisions, and developed a series of workshops on clinical education. Teaching and patient care are inextricably intertwined. At SKH, clinical educators do their best for student learning, be it in the medical, nursing or allied health discipline. The continuity of care increases students' exposure to patient care. In line with this is the adoption of inter-professional education and care to transcend the tribalism of health professionals. Healthcare professionals are not working in silos, and training them in the inter-professional setting helps them to better understand the expertise and responsibilities of other professions, improve collaboration among departments and improve patient care outcomes.

About This Programme

This program is a series of interactive workshops that aim to provide participants with the skills and principles essential to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in the healthcare professions. The learning activities therein are designed to maximise the transfer of knowledge and skills in workshops to clinical teaching setting. Content areas covered include theories and principles of teaching and learning, assessment and feedback. Participants include doctors, nurses, radiographers, therapists, pharmacists, dieticians and admin executives and the format is one of inter-professional learning.

Module 1: Clinical Teaching

Roles and responsibilities for clinical teachers and preceptors
Key factors for successful clinical teaching
Best practices in clinical teaching, e.g., the one-minute preceptor model

Module 2: Clinical Assessment 1

Goals of assessment, How to assess, What to assess,
Basic assessment principles,
Assessment of clinical competence,
Setting standards and expectations,
Align assessment with learning objectives.

Module 3: Clinical Assessment 2

Commonly used clinical assessment approaches in Medicine, Nursing and AHP
Best practices in conducting these common approaches

Module 4: Clinical Feedback

Trainees’ perception of feedback they receive in clinical posting
Barriers to giving effective feedback in clinical setting
Feedback techniques

Learning Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Describe core educational concepts and principles
Apply these educational concepts and principles to their own discipline of work
Apply inter-professional practice best practices to their own collaborative work

If you are interested in the programme, please contact: [email protected].