Build the skills and confidence to plan effective teaching, engage learners, present clearly and give constructive feedback. Study 18 modules at your own pace, then bring your learning together in a two-hour interactive webinar.
Choose a date for your two-hour webinar below, or select “I am not sure yet. I will schedule my two-hour webinar later”. Allow time to work through the online learning before your webinar.
Your £240 booking includes 18 modules, 90 days' online access and the live webinar. Enter the participant's details and add the place to your basket.
The programme combines practical teaching techniques with relevant principles from adult learning and medical education. The emphasis is not on memorising educational theory, but on understanding how useful principles can be applied when planning, delivering and evaluating teaching in real healthcare environments.
This Teach the Teacher (Train the Trainer) programme gives you techniques to use in tutorials, clinical supervision, presentations and everyday workplace teaching.
Put the learning into practice. Through exercises and reflection, you will relate the ideas to your own teaching: identifying what learners need, choosing activities that support your objectives and checking understanding. You will also bring these elements together in a lesson plan for discussion during the live webinar, connecting the programme to a teaching session you could deliver in your own workplace.
Participants who successfully complete the online modules and attend the live webinar receive 12 CPD points.
Follow 18 self-paced modules covering teaching, learner engagement, presentations and feedback. Revisit the material throughout your 90-day access period.
Get oriented to the programme and consider what effective teaching looks like in healthcare settings. Identify the educational challenges you most want to improve.
Explore the behaviours and habits that make teaching effective, alongside the attitudes and activities that help learners participate and develop.
Build on the foundations with further practical approaches to explaining ideas clearly, engaging a group and adapting your teaching to different situations.
Discover how changes in format, pacing and activity can recapture attention and make teaching sessions more engaging.
Explore Kolb’s experiential learning cycle and the Honey and Mumford learning-style framework, and consider their use and limitations when planning educational activities.
Explore useful planning, communication and facilitation techniques to make teaching more focused, memorable and practical.
Consider how attention works and why learners may miss information even when they are looking or listening. Apply these ideas to the design and delivery of teaching.
Explore the 4MAT framework as a way to organise teaching around different learning activities, questions and approaches.
Consider how games and interactive challenges can encourage participation, support understanding and enliven teaching sessions.
Examine the learning pyramid associated with Edgar Dale and reflect on how claims about learning and retention relate to the choice of teaching methods.
Learn to use purposeful questions to check understanding, prompt reflection and engage participants during teaching.
Develop techniques to manage nerves, project confidence and feel more comfortable when teaching and presenting.
Explore structured ways of responding when learners ask challenging, unexpected or difficult questions.
Improve how you structure a presentation, communicate key messages and maintain audience attention.
Develop approaches to providing clear, constructive feedback that supports reflection, learning and improvement.
Consider how to handle challenging behaviour, interruptions and difficult interactions while keeping the teaching environment constructive.
Bring together what you have prepared during the first 16 modules to build a lesson plan for discussion during the webinar. The webinar is also an opportunity to revisit key points from the course and ask questions.
Explore additional self-paced learning resources on teaching, presentations, feedback and medical education to deepen your understanding.
Study when it suits you, then discuss and apply your learning with an ISC Medical trainer.
Use videos, written material, exercises, questionnaires and reflection to develop your teaching. You have 90 days' access to study and revisit the material.
Prepare a lesson plan, discuss your teaching and ask questions in an interactive Zoom session. Choose a webinar date when booking or schedule it later.
Receive your certificate for 12 CPD points after completing the required learning and attending the webinar.
The programme is open to doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals involved in teaching, supervision and staff development.
If you are balancing clinical work, rota commitments and personal responsibilities, the 90-day access period lets you study in shorter sessions at times that suit you and revisit the material whenever helpful.
The programme helps you develop practical skills for teaching medical students, foundation doctors and colleagues while building formal evidence of professional development in education for appraisal and portfolio purposes.
The course provides structured professional development in teaching and can support portfolio evidence while helping you become more confident when supervising, teaching and developing colleagues.
More experienced clinicians can use the programme to refresh and formalise their teaching approach, improve feedback and facilitation skills and explore more structured methods for supporting learners.
The programme is not limited to doctors. Nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, clinical managers and other healthcare professionals involved in teaching, supervision and staff development can apply the same principles within their own professional settings.
You have 90 days to complete the programme, allowing you to fit your learning around rotas, clinics, on-call commitments and personal responsibilities. You can work through the modules when it suits you, revisit material throughout your access period and spend longer on areas that are particularly relevant to your role.
The programme covers 18 online modules, progressing from effective teaching to practical presentation, questioning and feedback skills, and further learning resources. Videos, exercises and reflective activities help you put ideas into practice.
After working through the e-learning, join a two-hour interactive webinar with an ISC Medical trainer. Consolidate the material, discuss teaching challenges and consider how the principles apply in your own clinical or professional environment.
Educational theory is included where it helps explain effective teaching, but the emphasis is firmly on practical application. You will develop approaches to planning teaching, engaging learners, communicating complex ideas, facilitating groups, giving feedback and dealing with challenging teaching situations.
The examples and activities reflect situations encountered by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, from supervising individuals and explaining clinical concepts to delivering presentations, facilitating groups and supporting multidisciplinary learning.
Participants who successfully complete the e-learning modules and attend the live interactive webinar receive 12 CPD points, providing formal evidence of professional development in teaching for appraisal and professional portfolios.
Participants value the flexibility of working through the material at their own pace while still having the opportunity to discuss and consolidate their learning during the live webinar.
"This course addresses all the points I was hoping it would. The live webinar was a great idea and helped me consolidate what I learned during the online modules. I liked the fact we were able to present a lesson plan for one of our own teaching sessions too."
"A very enjoyable course with a good variation of teaching tools and a very friendly trainer."
"The Teach the Teacher Online Course was easy and convenient to attend. It was meticulously organised and comprehensively covered all the relevant topics in the field of medical teaching. I thought the trainer Marc Danbury was an exceptional teacher, and his teaching experience is evident in the way he structured the course. Definitely worth taking, an excellent course."
"Thank you for helping me develop ways of improving my confidence in standing up in front of an audience. This course is a life saver"
"This online course was a real journey of discovery. I enjoyed the pace very much, and appreciated sharing my thoughts with Rachel and other medics during the webinar."
"A really good course covering a huge range of topics. Loved the videos and really enjoyed the live session too."
"Very good course. I am looking forward to trying out the online leadership course next."
The programme costs £240, including VAT. This includes 18 modules, 90 days' online access and the two-hour webinar. Save 10% when you book two places on this course or combine it with any other ISC Medical course.
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The course is for doctors and other healthcare professionals who teach, supervise or develop colleagues and want the flexibility of self-paced learning with a live trainer-led webinar.
You have 90 days’ access to all 18 online modules. You can study at your own pace and revisit completed material during that period.
After studying the online modules, you attend a two-hour interactive webinar with an ISC Medical trainer to discuss and apply what you have learned. Attendance is required to receive your CPD certificate.
Participants who successfully complete the e-learning programme and attend the live webinar receive 12 CPD points.
Yes. You can select a webinar date during booking or choose “I am not sure yet. I will schedule my two-hour webinar later” and arrange it after booking. The live webinar helps consolidate what you have learned in the modules.
The self-paced modules combine video content, written material, practical exercises, questionnaires and reflection. You can revisit the teaching content during your 90-day access period and apply the techniques to your own sessions.
The programme provides formal evidence of professional development in teaching and can support CCT and CESR portfolios, subject to the evidence requirements of your specialty and pathway.
Many doctors are able to reclaim professional development course costs through their NHS Study Budget, subject to local approval. We provide a VAT invoice and completion certificate to support reimbursement claims.
Your certificate is issued after you have successfully completed the required e-learning and attended the live validation webinar.
This programme combines 18 self-paced modules and a two-hour live webinar. It provides evidence of professional development in teaching; its suitability for an application depends on the recruiting body's requirements.
Before booking solely for application points, check the required teaching format, duration and evidence for your recruitment round. Where more live teaching is required, see our 1-Day and 2-Day Live Teach the Teacher Courses.
18 modules · Two-hour live webinar · 90 days' access · 12 CPD points · £240
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