Train the Healthcare Trainer

Learn how to make learning stick and develop as a healthcare trainer

Free upgrade for UK NHS staff

A free upgrade for this course is available for NHS staff by registering here. This upgrade is also available free to NHS-affiliated staff. Check eligibility.

This informative, five-week course is based on the latest research into how adults learn. It offers evidence-based methods and techniques that participants can use to ensure learning genuinely takes place and is transferred to practice. On the course, you’ll explore a diverse toolkit of proven techniques; each of which is modelled as the course progresses. The course introduces the selection and blending of methods and delivery routes to optimise the transfer of learning to practice. Improve your planning, design and delivery skills on your journey to becoming an expert trainer by understanding teaching techniques, assessment and the motivation of learners and gain practical advice on dealing with nerves and unexpected challenges when training. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to cause learning to happen by incorporating training techniques which ensure that learning lasts.

Getting your certificate

Everyone has five weeks from when they start to complete the sessions. Upgrading with FutureLearn is free of charge to NHS employees (and those directly contracted to provide NHS services) in England. Upgrading means you’ll receive a certificate on successful completion of the course and unlimited access to the sessions and materials.

Check the eligibility criteria and upgrade here.

This course is suited to anyone employed in the healthcare sector who has training as all or part of their role and is aimed at those new to training or existing trainers who wish to update their skills, the course will be of equal benefit to those who design and facilitate classroom, simulation, online, hybrid and eLearning.

This course is suited to anyone employed in the healthcare sector who has training as all or part of their role and is aimed at those new to training or existing trainers who wish to update their skills, the course will be of equal benefit to those who design and facilitate classroom, simulation, online, hybrid and eLearning.

• Apply evidence-based learning principles to training design
• Design learning plans and activities in the context of causing learning to happen
• Demonstrate evidence-based planning and teaching skills
• Design activities which ensure lasting learning and transfer to practice
• Demonstrate teaching practice which indicates a progression from novice trainer towards expert