Mildura doctors get teacher training
Over thirty doctors in Mildura and the surrounding area have strengthened their teaching and supervisory skills thanks to free training provided by Monash Rural Health’s North West Victoria Regional Training Hub.
The training is part of the new Clinical Teaching and Education Pathway, a three stage program to strengthen teaching and supervisory capacities among doctors within regional health services. The program was originally developed by Monash Rural Health’s Dr Lisa Hall, Senior Lecturer in Education and Evaluation, and was recognised with a Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences’ Dean’s Award for Excellence in Education - Industry and Community Education Programs in 2022.
As a teaching hospital, Mildura Base Public Hospital supervises over 40 Monash University medical students on placement, as well as 18 interns and 119 house medical officers, including those seconded from other health services, each year.
Mildura Base Public Hospital’s Director of Medical Education, Dr Mary Beth MacIsaac, was excited to partner with Monash Rural Health to offer the innovative Clinical Teaching and Education Pathway program to all the hospital’s doctors with supervisory responsibilities.
“We appreciated the supervision support and training offered by Lisa Hall and the team at Monash Rural Health. The peer to peer teaching model allowed for sharing of experiences and collaborative learning. Our clinical supervisors gave very positive feedback about the program.”
Associate Professor Hieu Pham, Deputy Director of the North West Victoria Regional Training Hub, said the enthusiastic take-up of the program in Mildura reflected the region’s commitment to strengthening the medical workforce.
“We know that high-quality teaching and supervision is key to supporting our medical students and junior doctors, and helps build a strong local medical workforce. Monash Rural Health and the North West Victoria Regional Training Hub are proud to support our local health services and primary care clinics by bringing this world-class training to our region.”
Twelve of the participating local doctors were sponsored by the North West Victoria Regional Training Hub to further develop their skills in clinical education and supervision by completing an additional workshop, delivered by the Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education in July.
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The Monash Rural Health Regional Training Hubs facilitate speciality training and career development opportunities for junior doctors, to help them live, work and train rurally. The Monash Regional Training Hubs are supported by the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program of the Department of Health and Aged Care.