ID-5184 Wonca Abstracts supplement A-K 13-10-23 - Flipbook - Page 297
WONCA 2023 Supplement 1: WONCA 2023 abstracts (A–K)
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The development of a national curriculum for GP supervisors
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Dr Gerard Ingham, Tony Saltis
RACGP
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This presentation will describe the journey to a national curriculum for the education of GP supervisors.
It will describe both the destination reached and what has been learnt during the journey.
The expedition commenced with the idea that there should be a curriculum for supervisors and a
group of medical educators willing to start the path towards it. Along the way were many setbacks,
including encountering the political difficulties of writing a curriculum. A transit through ‘researchland’
was the highlight of the trip. There were familiar sites visited and there are some travellers’ tips
to share.
The destination reached is a spiral curriculum with 10 roles of a GP supervisor described as organising
principles. The curriculum includes a task-based syllabus designed to help avoid the known barriers
to translating educational theory into practice. The curriculum should allow the delivery of a nationally
consistent GP supervisor education program for GP supervisors in all training and workforce programs
while still allowing local contextual modification.
A destination is but a starting point for the next journey.
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