ABSTRACT
Teaching, much like clinical work, requires the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes. This chapter guides teachers to find out more about teaching healthcare professionals and ways in which they can formalise this. Grasping the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes is not enough. Teachers should continually strive to improve these qualities, and must formally demonstrate such improvement. Personal development plans (PDPs) allow for variations in learning style, personality, experience, interests and job requirements. Many healthcare professionals are required to maintain PDPs for managing their personal learning. Teachers should guide learners through educational conversation, or formative appraisal, to ensure careful and accurate review and well-defined, realistic, achievable and necessary goals. Often the PDP is a good starting point for a portfolio, as it highlights the ongoing development of learning objectives and teachers' plans for improvement. Teachers should help learners to prepare for relicensing/revalidation exercises and/or be the assessors undertaking these processes.
