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What is the Protégé Effect?

Back before the institutional version of healthcare even existed, a philosopher named Seneca made this statement: ‘While we teach, we learn’. How can you apply this statement to your own learning goals?

Last Updated: 15 September 2022

How to Teach a Colleague a New Skill

Imagine that you've arrived at work and you're told you're going to show a new colleague how to do something – though sometimes frustrating, this is a great opportunity for both you and your colleagues!

Last Updated: 31 August 2022

Providing Constructive Feedback in Healthcare

How do you provide feedback effectively and empathetically? And what does it mean if it’s ‘constructive’?

Last Updated: 21 August 2022

The Case for Non-Technical Skills in Healthcare

What are non-technical skills, especially in a technical field such as healthcare? And how can you improve them?

Last Updated: 14 August 2022

How to be Coachable in Healthcare

In a professional healthcare setting, the way you respond to feedback not only influences your reputation: it also influences your practice.

Last Updated: 11 August 2022

8 Collaborative Learning Activities for Healthcare

Peer teaching, case studies, simulations and stumping: collaborative learning can make it easier to focus, be a more enjoyable learning experience, and can allow you to engage with varying ideas and perspectives.

Last Updated: 28 July 2022

How Do You Find Time to Learn?

Planning, forecasting and holding yourself accountable: if you play your cards right, there's always time to learn.

Last Updated: 21 July 2022

Using Metrics to Monitor Your Learning Habits

Metrics are a great way to make sure you’re getting the most out of your dedicated learning activities. But how can you use success metrics in your day-to-day learning? And what effect do they actually have?

Last Updated: 14 July 2022

Prioritising Learning in a High-Stakes Environment

Prioritisation – ie. being flexible when choosing and structuring learning topics – is essential for your learning goals to stay relevant and achievable.

Last Updated: 07 July 2022

What is 'Gamifying' Your Learning?

Gamification is a term that can wrinkle some brows: what does it mean? Isn’t that something to do with casinos? And what does it have to do with education?

Last Updated: 07 July 2022

The Power of Collaborative Learning

Despite well-intentioned determination, studying alone may not always be the most effective way to learn. Collaborative learning may be the answer.

Last Updated: 22 June 2022

How Can You Make More Informed Career Choices?

When it comes to making decisions that may have a long-term effect upon your life, it’s understandable to freeze up. Enter Tiedeman’s Decision-Making Model!

Last Updated: 21 June 2022

Using the Forgetting Curve in Healthcare

People have been struggling to retain information for millenia. Ebbinghaus essentially took a commonly understood phenomenon and quantified it, making it possible for us to track the retention of information and respond accordingly.

Last Updated: 15 June 2022

How Can You Retain What You’ve Learnt?

Remember in school when you'd cram all of your learning into about a week in preparation for an upcoming exam or test, and then a few weeks later you couldn’t remember anything at all? We want to know: what determines whether information sticks in your brain?

Last Updated: 12 June 2022

How Can You Make Time for Learning?

You don’t automatically ‘have’ time for things: instead, you have to make time by prioritising tasks and holding yourself accountable.

Last Updated: 06 June 2022

Setting Up Your Space

Even if you’ve never really thought about it, the physical space in which you learn is an incredibly important element of learning itself.

Last Updated: 19 April 2022

The Importance of Setting Goals

Why do we set goals? And how can we optimise our goal-setting habits so we succeed more often?

Last Updated: 19 April 2022

Building Better Learning Habits

Forming habits that stick can be tough, yet almost half of what we do everyday is dictated by habitual or repeated behaviour. How can we make habitual behaviour work for us?

Last Updated: 06 April 2022

Five Elements of an Effective Learning Plan

An effective learning plan is not just a list of resources you plan to complete within a set period of time: it's actually a collection of intentions, goals and professional destinations.

Last Updated: 04 April 2022

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