Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education
University of Michigan
  • Start Date: 21 Jun, 2021
  • 8 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Build the professional teaching skills you need to provide effective teaching to healthcare professionals at all levels.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Learn instructional design and teaching strategies to enhance teaching practice


This interactive course, led by experts at the University of Michigan, offers you the opportunity to build in-demand skills in healthcare teaching.


You’ll learn through educational videos, readings, recommended reference books, crowd-sourced recommendations, and discussion with the course educators and other learners.


Develop your knowledge of adult learning theory


Teaching adults requires specific teaching techniques and health professions education demands a thorough understanding of educational theory.


You’ll build your knowledge of educational theory as it relates to education in the health professions and better understand the diverse learning styles and motivations of adult learners.


Upskill in instructional and assessment design


As well as enhancing your teaching methods, this course will teach you how to design lessons that encourage active learning and skill development in a diverse range of healthcare areas environments, including using strategies like clinical reasoning, simulation, and teaching with data, and supportive questioning.


You’ll learn how to set intended educational outcomes, exploring evidence-based frameworks including Bloom’s Taxonomy, Miller’s pyramid and clinical competence, and Dryfus’ Dreyfus’ model of skill acquisition


Learn how to reflect on and improve your teaching methods


The course will also encourage you to incorporate reflection and feedback into your work so that you can iterate on your instructional techniques.


You’ll even build your skills in teaching with technology, as you explore synchronous versus asynchronous online teaching formats and how to share clinical simulations online.


This course is designed for anyone actively engaged in a health professions setting such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, social work, and public health. It will be particularly useful for those involved in medical education and teaching members of the health professions.


Many of the concepts explored can also be applied more broadly to adult education.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

University of Michigan

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

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