Educational supervision is at the centre of the training of psychiatrists. A crucial component of this supervision is feedback to trainees about their progress to enable their effective development as psychiatrists.

Workplace-based assessments (WPBA) require effective supervision and feedback for trainees and this module aims to introduce supervision and feedback in this context.

In particular, we consider:

• the principles of supervision
  
  
• the principles of feedback, including the SET-GO principle
  
  
• models of feedback including Pendleton's rules and the Calgary-Cambridge model
  
  
• feedback for WPBA
  
  
• feedback on clinical skills
  
  
• feedback on professionalism.

We look at strategies to successfully provide both positive and negative feedback. Scenario-based video clips are shown throughout the module to help demonstrate giving feedback to trainees.

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