Sharing content or resources:
How do I share my teaching guides (new curriculums) with others?
We greatly encourage you to contribute to our community as it supports your fellow medical officers. There are 2 methods of sharing your content with the greater teaching community:
Formal submission for website upload - see “Tutorials, Bedside or Skills Curriculum submission” in Get Involved - this method involves review of material before website upload, with author name and details listed publicly on the site. Formal recognition will also take place with a certificate attesting to website submission.
Informal submission to greater community - this can be conducted through content sharing through our public profiles. See contact us or the footer below for links.
Submitting related content (e.g. PPT) to existing curriculums
Have you made a PowerPoint you want to share? Found a really easy whiteboard set up that enhanced your teaching? Did you make a worksheet or came up with an exercise that worked well? Well we want to hear about it! Post on social media and tag us, or alternatively send us your content and we’ll post it to the site attached to the existing resource after review. Include your name, topic of submission and content (photo/ppt etc) and email us at npmteaching@gmail.com
Why should I contribute content to this site?
You enable other like-minded junior teachers to benefit from the preparation work you have already performed empowering more tutors to get involved. Preparation time and resource creation is an identified common barrier to near-peer tutoring.
You get credit! Any content submitted to the site has both an author, editor (if applicable), consultant signatory and date published listed. You can then list this on your resume as direct evidence of involvement in teaching.
Wishing to share a good teaching article/course with others?
A couple of ways to approach this:
Feel free to contact us and let us know about it! This gives us the opportunity to post it to our site in either the news or teaching sections of the site to let people know.
Post to our social media pages - find links at contact us or in the footer below.
Is this all free? Can I change the content?
Yes! and Yes. We would ask you to acknowledge the site as the original source of information to ensure other students and tutors alike are able to find it and learn more about our program and hopefully contribute too! Below is a standard disclaimer you may put in any prepared or distributed resources based off our program. There is no requirement to do this but, we’d really appreciate it.
“This material was originally sourced from npmteaching.com and the material presented has/has not been edited from the original lesson plan”
We ask you do not utilise our formal surveys if the content delivered was edited substantially from the original curriculum.
How to ask questions and give feedback:
How to ask a question regarding website content?
If you wish to directly communicate with the NPMT team or have a broader question you can use the contact us page and leave your details so we can get in contact with you.
If you wish to communicate with the teaching community and us via social media don’t hesitate to use any of our platforms to ask questions.
How to give feedback to the NPMT program?
Like any educational framework we greatly value your feedback, it is key to the ongoing improvement and development of the program. The best way to give feedback depends on the setting:
General feedback regarding the overall program - utilise the contact us page to leave us a message
Tutor feedback regarding specific materials on the site - tutor feedback survey found here
Student feedback regarding specific education sessions - utilise the student feedback link
*We would ask you to utilise the student feedback link only where presented content closely reflects the original curriculum content or design of our packs. Thanks
How to gather your own local feedback from students?
Contact us to let us know you are seeking to review data collected relating to your site. We can export the data from our surveys specific to your site. Additionally within the forms page you will find a template for the student feedback form utilised by NPMT.
If you do note that there is local feedback highlighting potential improvements to our program we’d encourage you to pass them on via email or through the contact us page.
Website and resource quality control
How is the quality of formal resources checked?
All posted content to the site by site administrators (i.e. not in the comments section) is reviewed by a consultant, fellow or advanced trainee in the relevant field to which the content belongs at the time of upload. For more information visit the Get Involved page for more information regard our content review process prior to publication.
How does the information on the site remain up to date?
The site administrators and teaching network locally will continue to utilise the teaching resources. Through the use of these resources and gathered feedback both locally and through the site requirements for updates will be highlighted. The process of updating content in curriculums requires an editing and approval process which will bed credited on the site. If you notice information on the site is out of date don’t hesitate to contact us and let us know, but also consider offering to update it yourself as we’ll give you credit with your name and update date on the relevant content page.
How is the accuracy of content submitted on NPMT social media pages maintained?
As administrators of these pages, if material is incorrect or contains misleading information content submitters will be advised by a NPMT representative to edit incorrect information contained in content posted. If content remains unedited following administrator efforts to contact content producers it will be taken down to ensure inaccurate information is not disseminated in the NPMT community.
Self education and research
I want to develop new skills as a teacher, where should I start?
Our teaching page holds a number of informal guides as well as suggested further reading or potential courses to consider.
I want to set up a more formal NPMT program at my organisation, where do I start?
Send us a message! We’ve had a lot of experience across many generations of JMOs and are more than happy to help you out. We have lots of additional forms and resources beyond the information available on the site that may be of use in the logistical leg-work to get your program up and running. If you have any questions or are hoping for some advice use the contact us page.
I’d like to get more involved in teaching research, how do I do this?
We have a multitude of gathered data from our teaching programs, if you are a local central coast doctor don’t hesitate to get in contact as there are projects aplenty. If you are further afield, we’d still love to hear from you as many within our program have ideas for projects or gaps in the literature that might give you an idea of where to start.