The Education Hub - Teach Think Treat

Using social media in professional healthcare

Should you use social media for your professional work? Which platform best suits what you want to achieve? What are the legalities around it? We talk with Dr Lexi Frydenberg who helps us answer these questions and discusses how you can get the best out of using social media for professional gain.Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Social media: How to meet your obligations under the National Law (ahpra.gov.au)

RCH Outreach Program

The RCH Outreach Program delivers paediatric healthcare education across a wide range of topics to external organisations, whether it's rural, metropolitan and even interstate. Today, we talk with Tania Ramos from the Outreach team. She covers the important work they do and how you can benefit from this service and possibly, help strengthen this amazing program.

Peer review of teaching

Most clinical healthcare professionals perform clinical teaching of colleagues and students at some point in their career. Wouldn’t it be great if you could receive feedback on how well you’re teaching? Introduce Peer Review of Teaching! We speak with Dr Wonie Uahwatanasakul and Dr Amy Gray who discuss Peer Review of Teaching at RCH and how you could implement it in your own workplace.

Adjusting to professional, clinical life

What happens when you’re fully qualified and sent into the big wide world of shift work, independence and responsibility? For this final part of our clinical education and placement series, we talk with Rose, Olivia and Jelena, who are graduates across medicine, nursing and allied health. They discuss how to look after yourself when transitioning from student to healthcare professional.

The Clinical Educator Perspective of Clinical Placement

We've heard from our student guests in Episode 1 about clinical placement and now we delve into the same topic from the other side; from our educators and supervisors. This is the third of a 4 part series.

Talking to patients and parents/guardians - Paediatric healthcare

In a paediatric setting, how do you talk to patients? And how is this different from talking to parents/guardians? For this second episode of our 4-part series on clinical education, we talk to Child Life Therapist, Carlie Alicastro and Nurse Practitioner, Steve Ferguson. They discuss effective methods of communication with patients and families, as well as how paediatric healthcare is a specialty.

The Student Perspective of Clinical Placement

In this first of a 4-part series on clinical education, we chat with a medical student (Gabrielle), nursing student (Alice) and allied health student (Amber). Gabrielle, Alice and Amber discuss their hospital experiences and what they would liked to have known before coming on clinical placement.