Supervision
Supervision during Dental Core Training (DCT)
Supervision
Clinical Supervison
You should have a named clinical supervisor for each clinical session. This person is selected and appropriately trained to oversee your clinical work and provide constructive feedback
Educational Supervision
You are allocated an Educational Supervisor on starting your post. This trainer has been selected and trained to be responsible for the overall supervision and management and feedback of your educational progress
Clinical Supervisor (CS)
Enables trainees to learn by taking responsibility for patient management within the context of clinical governance and patient safety
Ensures that clinical care is valued for its learning opportunities; learning and teaching must be integrated into service provision
Undertakes clinical supervision of a trainee, giving regular, appropriate feedback according to the stage and level of training, experience and expected competence of the trainee.
Undertakes assessment of trainees using the appropriate supervised learning events (SLEs), has been trained in the use of these and understands the relationship between learning and assessment.
Liaises with the appropriate Educational Supervisor over trainee progression.
Educational Supervisor (ES)
The Educational Supervisor role is to assist the trainee to plan their training and achieve agreed learning outcomes. They are responsible for the educational agreement and for bringing together all relevant evidence to form a summative judgement at review of competence progression meetings (RCP), interim (IRCP) and annual (ARCP).
Your Educational Supervisor will have an understanding of the role of assessment in learning, the use of portfolios as a learning and assessment tool, an understanding of how to identify, support and manage a trainee in difficulty, and of supporting trainee career decision making.
Educational Supervisor Meetings
