The Education Hub - Teach Think Treat

Failure to fail

Failing a student is not an easy task and can also take a toll on both the assessor and the learner. Sometimes it's just easier to pass them and handball the problem to the next assessor. In this podcast, Dr Cate Scarff talks about the ramifications of 'Failing to Fail' a student and how we all have a responsibility to maintain public safety.  

Supporting the high-achieving student

It's great to supervise a high achieving student. Or is it? It may seem like they are able to learn easily and complete tasks efficiently, but what effect is this having on the student? We talk with Sophie Crotti who has researched the area of the high achieving student, where the supervision of them may not be as easy as it seems.

Self-care - Part 1 - Following a critical event

Being involved in highly stressful situations can take an emotional toll, particularly when you’re expected to go straight back to work following the event. In this podcast, we chat with TJ Clark who is a staff psychologist in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at RCH. TJ talks about her role and how we can help each other to deal with these situations safely. 

The ongoing impact of COVID on clinical education

We’re very much aware of the impact that Covid had on the teaching and learning of healthcare students. How did this affect their clinical education? Medical Imaging Clinical Tutors, Adam Steward (Western Health) and Steve Lacey (RCH) discuss the results of their research into the effects that restrictions had on clinical placement for students and their preparedness to enter the workforce? 

The Education Hub - Conversations from our showcase

The Education Hub ran an event on December 1st 2022, to showcase our department. Members of the Hub presented their projects and educational opportunities available to the Melbourne Children’s Campus. In this podcast, we roam around the showcase and chat with The Education Hub staff about their roles, as well as some of the visitors who share their experiences.   

Tricky conversations with students

Your student comes to placement every day smelling of body odor and you need to address this. Sometimes, we need to have awkward conversations with students, and this is not something that you train for. Here, we present different, yet common scenarios to 2 clinicians to see how they would react.

Job Applications – The interview

You’ve submitted the application and now you’ve been offered an interview! How do you make a good impression and provide the best answers to those questions to get that job? In this second episode on job applications, we talk to Sharon Downie, Director of Medical Workforce at RCH and discuss everything about the interview, including what to wear, what to say and how to say it!  

Patient centred care Part 2 - Involving patients and parents in care

In this second part of our series on patient centred care, we explore some tips of how to approach discussions with patients and parents. Amanda Stock from RCH Emergency and Marnie Pascoe from RCH Comfort Kids discuss recognising the signs of the concerned parent and how to approach each patient encounter.  

Patient centred care Part 1 – Kindness

A patient centred care environment in the workplace begins with how we care for each other as a team. In the first of the series on patient centred care, we hear from the founder of the Hush Foundation, Dr Cathy Crock, who discusses her journey through establishing a patient centred care environment and how we can be kind to one another to improve the interactions with our patients. 
www.hush.org.au  
www.gatheringofkindness.org  

Clinical Supervision Part 2

In part 2 of this series on Clinical Supervision, we speak with Danni Tassoni and Michaela Comito from the RCH Dietetics Department. They take us through how they used the Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision Framework to implement a very successful departmental clinical supervision program.