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    Taking GP Supervisor Professional Development to Teaching Practices: A Guidebook for Medical Educators
    Clement, T ; Ingham, G ; Anderson, K (MCCC GP Training, 2022-01-31)
    Clinical supervisors engage in ongoing professional development to continuously improve as educators. Yet, in the general practice context, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the dominant mode of professional development – ‘short programs’ – typically delivered in face-to-face workshops. Concerns include the perennial transfer of training problem, inappropriate content, little impact on ‘hard to crack’ issues, and attendance difficulties for employees in small practices. As a potential resolution of these weaknesses, we designed a professional development intervention that is delivered in teaching practices. This medical educator-facilitated intervention is based on a generic quality improvement cycle, where the quality improvement actions to be taken are designed in response to a ‘problem’ identified by the primary supervisor, supervisory team, or practice. Underpinned by ‘collaborative inquiry’ a medical educator guides participants through the quality improvement cycle and supports participants to inquire productively into their practices. This guidebook is written for those medical educators who wish to support general practice supervisors to inquire into their practices and improve the teaching and learning environments where they work.