Peer review supports for clinical educators

Recognising the importance of faculty development and the complexity of the modern health professional work life, the Prideaux Centre, together with Flinders NT has made available a suite of short accessible professional development resources for health professional educators.

The resources present and explain an individually-tailored process to work with a colleague in your workplace to obtain feedback on your teaching of students or junior staff. This process has variously been called ‘peer review of supervision’, ‘peer observation of teaching’ or similar terms.

The foundation concept is that collaborating with work colleagues provides invaluable context-specific professional development support that will mutually enhance your teaching expertise. Below are a series of resources to assist you as a clinical supervisor in designing a peer review process that will strengthen the quality of your teaching and clinical supervision in the health care workplace.

What is peer review?

Peer review of clinical supervision is a voluntary process where health professional peers collaborate to review their supervisory practices. It is a mutually-beneficial activity where one peer, the reviewer, observes the other, the reviewee, whilst the reviewee is supervising a learner. The reviewer records their observations to facilitate a reflective discussion that allows both peers to gain valuable insights about their supervision.

Read a summary and the steps of the peer review process