| Unit name | Mentoring and Supervision (Unit 214) |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MEDIM0214 |
| Credit points | 15 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Greenwood |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Medicine |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Supervision is at the heart of clinical training and practice. Training relationships in the health service are also increasingly being described as containing aspects of mentoring or even as a ‘mentorship’. In educational terms, such one-to-one or dyadic relationships can be fascinating and fruitful, but can also be fraught with difficulties. One example would be the tension between support and assessment - between the roles of friend and inspector.
The unit will examine the research and theory that has been generated in the field of mentoring and supervision, and will evaluate ways in which health organizations and professionals are adapting to the demands of current practices. It will consider mentoring and supervision both as tools applicable to clinical training and as mechanisms to facilitate learning how to teach.
The Unit will develop students’ ability to:
The Unit will develop students’ skills in:
This is a 15 Credit Unit and therefore requires 150 hours work to be associated with it. This will be achieved as follows: 15 hours contact time during the study days plus 135 hours study to include background reading, researching and writing the assignment, and any 1:1 tutorial time with tutors.
The principle teaching and learning methods will include the following:
An assignment comprising 3,000 words.
Provisional deadlines: within 12 weeks of the first study day for a Unit.
The assignment for this Unit will be a work-based project based on the analysis of:
The student will critically appraise practices within their own area of work, drawing on important issues from the education literature and showing evidence of their own reflection on these issues as they occur in professional life. If analyzing a mentoring/supervisory relationship, this might be based on interviews with the people involved investigating (or, if it is the student who is involved, based on reflections on) the nature of this relationship, their involvement in it and its place in the wider context of the organization. The policy/strategy option will need to discuss in more depth the relevant organizational issues and context.
