NTAPT: Interprofessional Applied Practical Teaching and Learning in the Health Professions is a survey course in clinical education that fosters excellence in clinical teaching by providing clinician teachers and educators with the foundational competencies and skills to develop and teach educational programs.
The course is designed to provide participants with a broad introductory overview of clinical education, teaching, and learning issues in health professional training as a field of scholarly inquiry and research.
The course will examine the major topics which are important in developing educational programs for health sciences and will introduce students to some of the important literature in the field of teaching and learning including as it is applied to practicum/field supervision. It will also provide participants with opportunities to develop a scholarly and practical approach to teaching with generous use of case studies and in working in small groups and multidisciplinary teams.