Allied Health Placement Clinical Educator Training

La Trobe University School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport brings you 'Allied Health Placement Clinical Educator Training', a series of webinars to help clinical educators to create positive placements for students. The series has been designed to cater to individuals with a range of experience level across all allied health disciplines.

This professional development opportunity will aim to answer some of the most commonly asked questions of clinical co-ordinators and inform clinical educators on the best way to create supportive and meaningful placements.

The series commences with a pre-recorded introductory workshop before exploring topics such as feedback, support, and wellbeing in greater depth via a live-webinar series commencing in April.

All registrants will be sent a link to the live webinars via their supplied email.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the conclusion of each webinar.

• Clinical Education 101: An introductory workshop for clinical educators

A pre-recorded workshop to cover the key pillars of all placements including induction, clarifying expectations, roles of support staff and planning for students.

Delivered by Adam Bird, Associate Dean, Clinical Partnerships (School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport) La Trobe University

• Managing difficult conversations

A guide to communicating with students on placement. Focuses include giving and receiving feedback, managing delivery tone and responding to different reactions.

Delivered by Tanya Cooper, Clinical Educator
May 2022

• How to foster clinical learning environments for allied health students

  This workshop will provide clinical supervisors with practical suggestions and research on how to promote supportive clinical learning environments. Topics covered will include understanding growth mindsets in learning, pacing of clinical complexity, expectation setting and understanding student perspectives of placement performance

  Presented by Rachel Davenport, Speech Pathology Lecturer La Trobe University
  May 2022

  Dates TBA

• Struggling students

  Managing expectations and professional relationships with students that are falling behind

• Learning activities

  Developing purposeful exercises to help students improve their skills and professionalism

• The placement lifecycle

The structure of a placement from induction to late placement

• Student wellbeing

Supporting students to achieve their goals and objectives by creating appropriate coping mechanisms through stress, anxiety and pressure