The Education Hub - Teach Think Treat

Research for beginners

Where do you start when you want to do research? Why bother going through the whole process? In this episode, we speak with PhD candidates Sarah, Yasemin and Douglas, who share their own experiences. We'll discuss concepts involving "research before research", networking and co-design. Their insights and advice on how to make the most out of your own research journey will appeal to many.

Job Applications – The CV and Cover Letter

The competition for jobs is high and you desperately want that interview. How do you make that CV and cover letter stand out amongst the crowd? Abbey Gordon from the RCH Medical Workforce Unit & Claudia Barriga from Nursing Education give us some tips to ensure your cover letter and CV catch the eye of the employer.

Clinical Supervision - PART 1

The Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision framework outlines the principles that underpin high quality clinical supervision and what clinicians, teams and organisations can do to support this. We talk with Marcus Gardner who describes that aspects of clinical supervision and how the framework can help clinicians and organisations implement and improve their own clinical supervision programs.

The void: COVID-19 restrictions and junior doctor education opportunities

Today we're speaking with Dr Jye Gard. Jye is the Lead Paediatric Clinical Teaching Fellow and Education Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne and a consultant paediatrician. He has recently published a paper looking at how medical education has changed as a result of the pandemic and how it has impacted the self-perception of junior doctors’ education and training needs.

Feedback - Structuring feedback

Feedback is a very important part of our work. Most of us want to receive it, but most of us don’t want to give it. In this episode, we chat with Elisha Matthews from Allied Health and Dr Peter Howe from Anaesthetics who discuss some feedback structures and how you can do away with the “feedback sandwich”.

The University of Melbourne’s Paediatric Academy

The Paediatric Academy is a new and exciting University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics initiative. This is a digital platform, much like LinkedIn, that will allow paediatric clinicians and educators to network with other healthcare professionals all over the world. We talk with those behind the scenes, Phoebe Malone and Lichin Lim, who tell us about it and how you can get involved.

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.