Short course
Clinical Supervision Online
Gain the skills and confidence to guide, support, and challenge learners in clinical settings.
What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Effective clinical supervision plays a vital role in supporting learner development and enhancing patient care across all healthcare settings.
Designed for current and aspiring clinical supervisors supporting students and trainees in clinical environments, this short course will equip you with essential skills and insights to become a more confident, reflective, and effective supervisor.
You will explore core responsibilities of clinical supervision—including how to give feedback, navigate challenges, and create psychologically safe learning environments.
Clinical Supervision Online offers practical, evidence-based strategies you can apply immediately in your clinical setting. With a strong focus on workplace relevance and reflective practice, this on-demand online course allows you to enrol anytime and take up to 12 months to complete.
Reflect on your own supervisory approach
Examine the personal and contextual factors that influence how you supervise. Learn how to identify your supervisory strengths and challenges, and begin shaping an approach that fits your clinical setting.
Create safe and inclusive learning environments
Explore the concepts of psychological and cultural safety. Gain the skills to assess your own cultural competence and foster a learning environment where all trainees feel respected, supported, and able to contribute.
Strengthen your feedback practice
Develop a deeper understanding of your own response to feedback, and learn how to support feedback literacy in your learners. By the end of this course you'll be able to evaluate and apply evidence-based feedback models to enhance your supervision conversations.
Recognise the value of failure
Reframe failure as a critical part of learning. Understand how to identify struggling learners early, respond constructively, and balance support with accountability to promote both learning and patient safety.
Manage challenges with confidence
Identify common challenges in supervision, including professionalism concerns and interpersonal dynamics. You'll gain a practical toolkit to approach difficult situations with greater clarity and confidence.
Use coaching strategies to motivate and support
Learn how to incorporate coaching principles into your supervision practice. Explore how balancing care and challenge builds trust, motivation, and learning in your clinical team.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Dr Rosie Shea
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education (MBBS, FRACP, MClinEd)
Rosie is the Academic Lead for the Rehabilitation, Aged Care, Psychiatry of Old Age and Palliative Care rotation in the Doctor of Medicine (MD), and a topic lead for the MD Discovery topics: Medical Humanities and Teaching and Learning in Medical Education. Rosie also leads the clinical supervision subject (Creating a Clinical Learning Environment) within the EXCITE program.
Fees
For individuals
To take Clinical Supervision Online as a short course, you'll pay the normal course price.
Clinical Educators who supervise students from any discipline within the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne may be eligible for support to complete this course. Further information: Contact A/Professor Anthea Cochrane, Academic Director Melbourne ACE at Melbourne-ACE@unimelb.edu.au
$500.00 (inc GST)