NUS

HP-KITT

Health Professions: Key Ideas for Teachers and Trainers
(HP-KITT) Course


Wednesday 15 January 2025– 8am to 5pm (Full Day)
Thursday 16 January 2025 – 8am to 12noon (Half Day)

Why you should participate

Important changes are taking place in health professions education, with additional demands being placed on teachers and trainers. The course serves as an introduction to these changes both for those with new responsibilities for teaching and training in the healthcare professions, or as an update for those with more experience.

The course has been designed by leaders in the field of health professions education to meet the needs of teachers and trainers from all regions of the world working across the continuum of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education.


Course outline

A series of key ideas in health professions education with a theoretical and practical foundation provides a basis for the course, with participants given the opportunity to reflect on and consider their adoption and implementation in their own teaching practice. A range of education strategies is introduced and explored in relation to the five stages of a student’s engagement in their learning: interest; commitment; facilitation; future-proofing; and assessment.

Module 1: The curriculum and stages of learner engagement

  • What is a curriculum and why is it important?
  • The roles of key stakeholders
  • The stages of learner engagement in the curriculum journey

Module 2: Interesting the learner - stage 1 of learner engagement

  • An authentic curriculum
    • On-the-job learning
    • Technology enhanced learning
    • Presentation based learning
  • Co-creating the curriculum

Module 3: Commitment by the learner - stage 2 of learner engagement

  • Outcome/competency based education
  • Mapping of the curriculum journey
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion

Module 4: Facilitation of learning - stage 3 of learner engagement

  • The teacher’s toolkit and fusion learning
  • Guided learning
    • personal tutor, study guides and AI
  • Precision (Personalised) education

Module 5: Preparation for lifelong learning - stage 4 of learner engagement

  • Future-proofing the learner
    • Just-in-time learning
    • Self-directed learning
    • Self-assessment

Module 6: Assessment - stage 5 of learner engagement

  • The school’s assessment PROFILE
    • Impact of assessment
    • Authentic assessment
    • Competency based assessment
    • Assessment for learning
    • Learner engagement with assessment
    • Assessment-led innovation


Course Faculty

Ronald M Harden OBE MD FRCP(Glas) FRCS(Ed) FRCPC (Course Director)
Professor (Emeritus) Medical Education, University of Dundee, UK; Editor-in-Chief - Medical Teacher.

Jeni Harden MA MPhil PhD PFHEA
Reader in Social Sciences and Health, University of Edinburgh, UK; Director of Quality, Edinburgh Medical School and Director of Education, Usher Institute.

Pat Lilley BA
Managing Editor, Medical Teacher; Director, Ottawa Conferences


Registration Fees: SG$790 + 9% GST

Please note: In addition to the HP-KITT course fees, participants are required to register and pay the registration fee for APMEC 2025.

The course fees include:

  1. Participation in face-to-face sessions where each module is introduced with an interactive overview of the key issues to be addressed, illustrated with practical examples. You will have an opportunity to engage in a small group activity and to relate the application of some key ideas to practise in your own and other settings.
  2. Resources that explore in more depth the issues raised in the course, providing a further understanding and ideas with regard to their implementation in practice:
    • A copy of the text Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher published by Elsevier is provided, together with extracts from The Eight Roles of the Medical Teacher, extracts from The Changing Role of Medical Students.
    • An extensive reference list relating to the course themes.
  3. A certificate of participation for those who engage in the course activities.
  4. An HP-KITT Certificate in Health Professions Education for those who undertake further study of the key ideas covered in the modules and complete an assignment that reaches the appropriate standard. This should relate the concepts to their own teaching practice.

To register: Please register at https://inetapps.nus.edu.sg/apmec/conference/