The New FDA Leadership in the Learning Environment Course

The Leadership in the Learning Environment (LitLE) Course is a one-day face-to-face course for Recognised/Approved postgraduate medical trainers who have at least a year’s experience in that role.

Following on from the FDA Trainer Workshop, this new course differs from traditional train-the-trainer courses by highlighting and exploring the relationship between workplace culture, the quality of patient care provided and the delivery of effective training. As well as considering the positive role applying leadership skills can have on each of these areas, the course explores the importance of equity, diversity, and the need for trainees to feel valued and included within a team.  

The course considers the trainer: trainee relationship, the importance of trainers getting to know their trainees at the start of a post, and for trainees to be supported and treated as individuals without them feeling they have hide or compromise their identities. The course also explores how allyship and privilege, can be used by trainers to support individual trainees when required.

The aim of the LitLE Course is to encourage trainers to utilise their leadership skills in a training context, emphasising the need for equity, diversity, and inclusion by discussing the practicalities of creating a learning environment conducive to learning for all trainees. The course highlights the many benefits of creating an inclusive workplace culture not only for trainees and trainers, but also for the team and the delivery of patient care.

Since its pilot in Inverness in September 2022, the FDA have delivered LitLE courses in 6 other Health Board areas, some at the request of local Directors of Medical Education.    We have a limited number of courses available for booking at the moment, but we hope to increase availability over the coming months.

For further details of all our FDA courses please visit Developing your educational role (nhs.scot)