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Faculty Development

We offer a wide range of faculty development workshops on different areas of healthcare professions education, and can also design tailored courses to suit the context (institution/country/level of participants).

Our services are tailored to individual institutional / organizational requirements.

Please contact us here for further discussions on how we might best assist you, and for consideration of fees.

University of Medicine, Myanmar

Dec 2020 : Workshop series on writing and reviewing SBAs December 2020 (via Zoom)

Type : Invited Webinar

Location : Myanmar (Via Zoom)

Management and Science University

Feb 2020 : OSCE Masterclass for Medical Faculty

Karolinska Institute Dental School, Sweden

2020 : Workshops on workplace based assessment (WBA) and feedback

University of Helsinki, Finland

2019 : Workshops on workplace based assessment (WBA) and feedback

Ministry of Health Singapore

2019 : Workshops series on OSCEs, workplace-based assessment (WBA) and portfolios

Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports

2019 : Workshop series on blueprinting and writing SBAs

Karolinska Institute Dental School, Sweden

2019 : Workshops series on workplace-based assessment (WBA) and feedback

Curtin University Medical School, Australia

2019 : Workshops series on OSCEs

Karolinska Institute Faculty of Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

2017 : 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course and 2 days Item Writing Course

The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

2017 : Workshops in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town on standard setting implementation and the use of portfolios in workplace based assessment

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

2017 : 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course and Advice on Finals examinations

University of Malaya, Malaysia

2017 : 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course

Curtin Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

2017 :

2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course for School of Physiotherapy
2 day OSCE Masterclass for School of Physiotherapy
3 days on OSCE design and implementation for Medical School

2016 : 3 Day Foundations of Assessment Course for Medical School

Ministry of Health Singapore

2016 & 2017 :

14 Workshops for postgraduate educators on

Models of Validity
Design and Implementation of Portfolios
Planning Programmes of Assessment
OSCE Masterclasses (2 days) including
- Principles of good OSCE practice
- Designing stations
- Planning and running an OSCE
- OSCE examiner training
- SP training for OSCEs
- How to interpret OSCE statistics
Advanced Practice Nurses (Ministry of Health)
OSCE Masterclass: review and piloting of stations

Duke-NUS Singapore

2017 : Design and implementation of a programme of Peer Observation of Teaching, including

Consultation with stakeholders
Design of peer observation form
Design and delivery of peer observation workshops
Live peer observation of clinical teaching

University of Tasmania, Australia

2016 : Tailored Foundations of Assessment Course for the Faculty of Medicine Workshop on standard setting

National Healthcare Group (NHG) Singapore

2015 : National Healthcare Group (NHG) Singapore engaged us to conduct a variation of our Foundations of Assessment Course, modified to run over 3 days, 7-9 October 2015, as they had special requirements for more hands-on experience for the multiprofessional audience they had organised. NHG is a public healthcare provider in Singapore, and wished to raise standards of health professional education and assessment.

(Katharine Boursicot and Trudie Roberts)

College of Aneasthetists of Ireland (Dublin)

2015 : 3 days of faculty development workshops on fundamental principles of assessment, a tailored version of the FAC, with more emphasis on postgraduate contexts and Workplace Based Assessments (WBAs) (Katharine Boursicot, Richard Fuller and Trudie Roberts)

Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia

2015 : 3 days of faculty development workshops on fundamental principles of assessment, a tailored version of the FAC, with special empahsis on blueprinting, item writing and OSCEs (Katharine Boursicot)

UiT The Arctic University, Norway (Tromso)

2014 & 2015 :

2014: 3 days of faculty development workshops on fundamental principles of assessment, a longer version of the FAC (Katharine Boursicot, Richard Fuller and Trudie Roberts)

2015: 3 days of OSCE focused workshops to support the development and implementation of OSCEs in the medical undergraduate curriculum (Katharine Boursicot and Richard Fuller)

Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

2012: workshops on blueprinting and item writing (Katharine Boursicot)
2013: workshops on item writing and standard setting (Katharine Boursicot)
2014: workshops on designing and implementing OSCEs (Sydney Smee)
2015: workshops on standard setting for OSCEs and Examiner Training (Sydney Smee)

Faculty Development