title: Clinical supervision training across contexts.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Clinicians require specific skills to teach or supervise students in the workplace; however, there are barriers to accessing faculty member development, such as time, cost and suitability. The Clinical Supervision Support Across Contexts (ClinSSAC) programme was designed to provide accessible interprofessional educator training to clinical supervisors across a wide range of clinical settings.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  In Australia there are increasing numbers of health care students, creating pressure on existing placements. Students are now increasingly learning in community settings, where clinicians have traditionally had less access to faculty member development.
  
  
  METHODS
  An interprofessional team collaborated in the development and implementation of ClinSSAC. A total of 978 clinicians participated in a face-to-face, interactive, introductory module to clinical supervision; 672 people accessed the equivalent online core module, with 23 per cent completing all activities. Additional profession-and discipline-specific modules were also developed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Formal project evaluation found that most participants rated the workshops as helpful or very helpful for their roles as clinical supervisors. Interdisciplinary learning from the workshops was reported to enable cross-discipline supervision. Large participant numbers and favourable ratings indicate a continuing need for basic training in education. Key factors to workshop success included expert facilitators, the interprofessional context and interactive model. The online modules were an important adjunct, and provided context-specific resources, but the low online completion rate suggests protected face-to-face time for faculty member development is still required. Programmes such as ClinSSAC have the capacity to promote interprofessional education and practice. There are barriers to accessing faculty member development, such as time, cost and suitability.
authors.affiliation: Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tai
authors.affiliation: Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bearman
authors.affiliation: Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Vicki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Edouard
authors.affiliation: Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kent
authors.affiliation: Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nestel
authors.affiliation: Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molloy
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration