Educator Pathway Level 1: Foundational Mentorship

Learning Strategy and Innovation provides sponsorship to support clinical mentors to attend this class. You must complete a short survey to confirm sponsorship eligibility. At this time we are unable to sponsor all roles in Fraser health.To determine if you are eligible for funding, please fill out this survey: https://forms.office.com/r/exipTSJzxE
Course Description:
This 1-day workshop is for beginner or intermediate clinical mentors who are new to the role or would like a refresher.Learn how to share your valuable expertise with colleagues and students – become a mentor! In Fraser Health, mentorship is viewed as a 1:1 learning partnership between experienced staff/employees and a new employee or student.In this hands-on workshop, learners will:

1. Consider how to express gratitude for where learning is taking place across our regional care areas
2. Develop respectful working relationships to foster effective learning environments.
3. Reflect on one’s own learning experiences with the intent to assist learners.
4. Recognize how theory and learner-centered teaching strategies are used by mentors to facilitate learning.
5. Describe the roles and responsibilities of mentors and learners, within the learning relationship.
6. Identify strategies and resources for supporting the role transition of learners.
7. Apply principles of providing feedback to foster effective learning relationships.
8. Apply strategies for critical thinking to foster the clinical decision making of learners.
9. Outline the process of identifying learning goals in collaboration with learners.