Clinicians require support to become educators and supervisors. HealthPEER Monash University and Monash Health developed ClinSSAC (Clinical Supervision Support Across Contexts), a half-day face-to-face interprofessional workshop, which was delivered in 2012-13. An online equivalent with additional context and discipline specific e-learning modules was launched in May 2013. To encourage self-assessment of education skill, the Maastricht Clinical Teaching Questionnaire (MCTQ)¹ was administered during the workshop or online and six months later.

Research Aims

• What is the impact of ClinSSAC?
• To determine clinical supervisor satisfaction with the program
• To determine change, if any, in clinical supervision/education skills

Module Contents

The Foundations of Supervision

• Facilitating learning
• Assessment & giving effective feedback
• Managing underperformance

Online Modules

Free to register  https://clinicalsupervisionsupport.org/ 

Methods

• Workshop evaluation survey
• Maastricht Clinical Teaching Questionnaire (MCTQ)¹
  • during the workshop with 6 month follow-up
  • theory of cognitive apprenticeship
  • designed to give individual feedback to clinical supervisors             
• Ethics approval granted by Monash University & Monash Health

* As of October 7, 2013

Overall workshop rating – meeting needs & interests as a clinical supervisor  

• mean rating of 3.67 

How useful is the Maastricht Clinical teaching Instrument  as a reflective (self-assessment tool) for your clinical

practice?

• Mean rating of 3.29 

MCTQ Total Scale (n=123)

• Participants’ evaluation and improved MCTQ ratings suggest the interprofessional program was appropriately designed.
• The interactive workshop allowed participants to share experiences and trial strategies to engage learners.
• This format also allowed for on-the-fly adaptation, and improvements to subsequent workshop delivery.
• Interactive and multidisciplinary face-to-face workshops were seen to improve supervisory skills across disciplines.
• Participants praised the MCTQ as a reflective tool to analyse their supervisory practice, and to set goals for educational development.  
• Self-evaluation of supervision practice demonstrated a sustained improvement

Interactive and multidisciplinary face-to-face workshops were seen to improve supervisory skills across disciplines. Participants praised the MCTQ as a reflective tool. 

1. Stalmeijer RE, Dolmans DH, Wolfhagen IH, Muijtjens AM, Scherpbier AJ. The development of an instrument for evaluating clinical teachers: Involving stakeholders to determine content validity. Med Teach. 2008;30:e272–e277.

This project was possible due to funding made available by Health Workforce Australia.