Available courses

Communication Skills

Introduction to Enabling Learning for Health Professionals

Welcome to the Executive HPE training!

The mission of the Executive HPE training is to introduce health professional educators (trainers of health professionals) to principles and concepts that will spark the transformation towards becoming enablers of learning.

This training focuses not only on the theory (the “what”) of enabling learning, but also on the practical aspects (the “how to do”). For this reason, learning experiences have been carefully chosen to make it easier for participants to grasp the theoretical underpinnings of effective facilitation of learning and immediately apply them in their sessions. This approach will allow you to move from an intellectual understanding of the theory to its practical implementation in the “classroom”.

This Executive HPE training is designed as a 4-day, face-to-face program that is best suited for health professionals working at or attached to a health training institution or a health facility where they are involved in training students.

Intended Learning Outcomes of the Executive HPE

By the end of this course, you will:

  1. Recognize your own level of (un)conscious (in)competence
  2. Differentiate between being a teacher and an enabler of learning
  3. Examine different learning styles and their implications for enabling learning
  4. Recognize the relationship between intended learning outcomes, teaching activities, and assessment methods.
  5. Apply some interactive and participatory formats to enhance learning
  6. Develop a lesson plan for a session to be implemented soon after the training

 Enjoy the journey!


HPE - Enabling Learning of Skills & Workplace Based Learning

Welcome to the HPE Skills Training and Workplace Based Learning course!

 

This second workshop in the Executive Health Professions Education short courses builds on the principles of enabling learning by focusing on the learning and teaching of practical and communication skills, as well as the integration of theory and practice in real workplace settings.

 

The workshop explores how skills training and workplace-based learning can be intentionally designed to maximize learner engagement, practice opportunities, and meaningful feedback. Participants are supported to examine their current approaches to teaching skills and supervising learning in clinical, laboratory, and community contexts, and to consider how these experiences can better enable learning rather than simply demonstrate competence.

 

Throughout the workshop, participants engage in structured learning experiences that connect educational principles to authentic teaching contexts, with particular attention to preparation for skills training, use of available learning environments, and addressing common challenges encountered in skills labs and workplace-based learning settings.

 

By the end of the workshop, participants will have strengthened their ability to design and facilitate skills training and workplace-based learning experiences that are purposeful, learner-centred, and grounded in the realities of health professions education.

This is a face-to-face, practice-oriented workshop designed for health professionals involved in teaching practical and communication skills in institutional, clinical, and community settings.


Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Examine your current approaches to skills training and workplace-based learning and identify opportunities to better enable learner practice and engagement.
  2. Design a structured plan or protocol for a skills training or workplace-based learning session that aligns intended learning outcomes, learning activities, and feedback.
  3. Identify strategies to support learner preparation for skills training, in order to optimize time for practice and active learning.
  4. Apply enabling-learning principles to the teaching of communication skills in both individual clinical encounters and community health education contexts.
  5. Reflect on common challenges in skills training and workplace-based learning and explore practical, context-appropriate ways of addressing them.