2022/23 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

HECS5319M Educational Supervision in the Pharmacy Workplace

30 creditsClass Size: 30

If you are applying for a stand-alone Masters level module please note you must meet either the general University entry criteria or the specific module pre-requisite for this level of study.

Module manager: Claire Easthall
Email: c.easthall@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2022/23

Pre-requisite qualifications

A bachelor degree (normally 2:1), applicants without a degree are encouraged to apply through our non-standard entry route.
Where appropriate current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Access to appropriate pharmacy practice, i.e. involved in supervising others, to allow the achievement of the module outcomes and work-based assignments.
Support from a work-based manager.

This module is mutually exclusive with

MEDS5107M

Assessment and Evaluation in the Clinical Context

Module replaces

HECS5122M Assessment, Appraisal and Evaluation HECS5145M Programme design and delivery

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module adopts a practice based approach to educational supervision in the workplace. Participants are encouraged to draw on and present their own experience as learning opportunities throughout the module. The content of the module is mapped to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) guidance for tutoring and supervising preregistration pharmacy professionals in training and the HEE Professional Development Framework for Educators. We encourage participants to integrate the skills and knowledge introduced during the module to their practice. This module is suitable for all pharmacists or pharmacy technicians (tutors and trainers) involved in supervising and supporting trainees in any sector e.g., undergraduate pharmacists, preregistration pharmacists, foundation pharmacists pre-registration and post registration pharmacy technicians. It is also suitable for pharmacists who are supervising healthcare professionals achieving independent prescribing qualifications.

Objectives

This module adopts a practice based approach to educational supervision in the workplace. Participants are encouraged to draw on and present their own experience as learning opportunities throughout the module. The content of the module is mapped to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) guidance for tutoring and supervising preregistration pharmacy professionals in training and the HEE Professional Development Framework for Educators. We encourage participants to integrate the skills and knowledge introduced during the module to their practice This module is suitable for all pharmacists or pharmacy technicians (tutors and trainers) involved in supervising and supporting trainees in any sector e.g. undergraduate pharmacists, preregistration pharmacists, foundation pharmacists, pre-registration and post registration pharmacy technicians. It is also suitable for pharmacists who are supervising healthcare professionals registered for independent prescribing qualification.

Module Objectives:
The module will provide students with the intellectual abilities and skills to:
- Ensure safe and effective patient care through educational supervision
- Ensure effective learning experiences and opportunities to achieve learning outcomes through educational supervision and provision of an effective learning environment
- Support trainees to identify learning needs and develop their portfolio of learning to aid progression through their educational programme
- Implement appropriate curricula, assessment and feedback strategies
- Engage with the implications of interprofessional and cross-disciplinary supervision
- Guide personal and professional development
- Ensure personal and professional development as educational supervisors
- Demonstrate educational governance and leadership

Learning outcomes
On completion of the module, students should be able to
1. Demonstrate a systematic and critical understanding of educational supervision in the workplace;
2. Demonstrate independence in applying this knowledge in practice;
3. Reflect on their role as supervisors in the workplace to evaluate their own professional practice and that of others;
4. Evaluate current issues and research and their relevance to educational supervision, curricula and workplace assessment:
5. Demonstrate educational governance and leadership

Skills outcomes
The following skills are developed in this module:
- Insight into the essential skills for postgraduate level study, including IT skills, literature searching, assignment planning, academic writing, critical reading and reflection and group working;
- Increased capacity to evaluate their own achievement and that of others;
- Develop educational supervision skills applicable in the workplace;
- Demonstrate competence and skill in using a wide range of educational assessments in the workplace;
- Enhanced written and verbal communication skills

Syllabus

Supervision:
- Roles and responsibilities, including interprofessional and cross-disciplinary supervision
- Teaching and facilitating learning
- Principles of work-based assessment and assessing performance
- Monitoring progress and conducting appraisals
- Provision of feedback

Leadership:
- Being a role model
- Ensuring a high-quality learning experience
- Positively influencing others' practice
- Motivating/inspiring others
- Encouraging and facilitating professional development such as portfolio development
- Leading change: critical reflection and enhancement of practice

Governance:
- Supporting learners who require additional support
- Equality and diversity
- Health and well being
- Raising Concerns
- Evaluation of training and quality assurance

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	24	1.50	36.00
Tutorial	4	1.00	4.00
Independent online learning hours			60.00
Private study hours			200.00
Total Contact hours			40.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

200 hours of private study inclusive of:
- 30 hours reading and other activities preparing for taught sessions;
- 90 hours post-unit follow up activities linked to their training plan;
- 50 hours researching and writing assessed assignments;
- 30 hours private reading.
60 hours support to facilitate independent learning will be given to the students through the University VLE (Minerva) which will provide additional reading, session hand-outs, power-point presentations and reading lists and enable group work to develop their learning needs analysis and training plans.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will be asked to undertake a learning needs analysis and to identify knowledge, skills and attitudes required for this module, followed by the development of a learning plan. Tutors will provide formative feedback on students’ learning needs analysis and their development plan. This learning plan will be presented in group tutorial sessions and receive tutor and peer formative feedback and help inform the reflective case study assignment.

Students will undertake group presentations during the face to face sessions and receive tutor and peer formative feedback.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	3000 words	50.00
Oral Presentation	FORMATIVE: Group presentations to tutor and peers	0.00
Tutorial Performance	FORMATIVE: Presentation of development plan linked to coursework to tutors and peers.	0.00
Case Study	Reflective case study - 3000 words and based on educational supervision of trainees in the workplace	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Students are not required to pass each assignment in order to pass the module but if they fail an assignment and averaged marks do not reach the module pass mark they can resubmit the assignment for a maximum mark of 50.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/04/2022 15:42:08

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