Friday 12^th September – MACP Study Day for Clinical Mentors and Training for Assessors

Morning Session: 0900-1300 – A focus on Clinical Mentoring

This forum will support MACP members who are currently mentoring or planning to mentor students on their clinical placements on either the taught (MSc) or portfolio routes to membership.

This is a morning session. There is also an afternoon session available focussing on the training of MCP Assessors, or people who would like to be assessors. The afternoon is a separate event booking. Members can book onto either session, or both if relevant.

Morning Session: Clinical Mentoring

• Introductions and overview of the forum
• Role of the clinical mentor and bare essentials
• Remote placements
• The mentor as a coach. The influence of power dynamics in the placement
• How to manage challenging placement encounters
• Summary and close