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A revised course including an e-learning component was launched in 2014. The GIC teaches the knowledge and skills required to understand the nature of teaching and learning, understand the needs of individual learner, understand the awareness of the four domains of learning and undertake the various types of teaching sessions on the provider courses.
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Only candidates who have been recommended as having instructor potential (IP) from their provider course (e.g. ALS, NLS, APLS, mMOET, MIMMS) can attend the GIC. The GIC must be undertaken within four years from the date of the provider course.
The course is the equivalent to a 3-day course, one day of which consists of a number of eLearning modules which must be completed prior to the two day face-to-face element of the course.
The candidates are subject to continuous assessment throughout the throughout the GIC.
£500.00
This includes meals and refreshments during the course.
For an application form please e-mail dhft.specialistcourses@nhs.net putting Generic Instructors in the subject, or call 01332 340131 (ext 89585).
Please advise of your grade, specialty, name of the hospital where you work and your mobile number.
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Course administrators and facilitators. This access is required to confirm your registration and to keep an accurate record of who is attending each course.
Senior website administrators access your submitted personal information via a password protected secure access point within our website system. This access is required for technical support purposes.
When a form has been submitted we will keep a hard copy as required by the governing body of the course. Forms are kept for a maximum of 5 years in a secure environment.
We store personal information for as short a time as possible.
Unless you have otherwise stipulated within your submitted registration, your details will be removed from our protected hospital computer network shortly after you have attended your training course.
You are entitled to request that we remove any personal information we have about you stored within our systems at any time. For more information on how to do this please email dhft.specialistcourses@nhs.net.