Bespoke 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.

2023 - 2024

    • Tailored Faculty Development course on best use of WBA and feedback

    • Tailored Faculty Development course on assessing professionalism and supporting the development of professional identity

    • Tailored Faculty Development workshops

    • Workshop on validity and WBA

    • Tailored workshops on blueprinting and writing SBAs

    • Designing a programme-wide system of assessment for the Medical School

2019 - 2022

    • Tailored Faculty Development workshops

    • Workshop series on OSCE (via Zoom)

    • OSCE workshops

    • Item writing and reviewing workshop

    • Workshop Series on Assessment of Professionalism

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

    • OSCE Masterclass for Medical Faculty

    • Workshops on workplace based assessment (WBA) and feedback

    • Workshops on workplace based assessment (WBA) and feedback

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

    • Workshop series on blueprinting and writing SBAs

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

    • Workshops series on OSCEs

2018 and earlier

    • 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course and 2 days Item Writing Course

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

    • 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course and Advice on Finals examinations

    • 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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

    • 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 multi-professional 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)

    • 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)

    • 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)

    • 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)

    • 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)