Ensuring Effective Clinical Supervision of Medical Students and Residents During Their Training Period

Abstract

In order to accomplish the vision to produce a competent medical graduate, a number of strategies have been proposed. In that regard, effective clinical supervision of the teachers is an exclusive requirement, which plays an important role in the learning and the professional growth of the students. In broad terms, the act of clinical supervision helps to ensure patient safety, educate the student, sustain the set standards of quality of care, identify the problems encountered by the student, support them to accomplish learning outcomes, and by doing all this monitor the learning progression. In conclusion, clinical supervision of students and residents during medical training is an effective approach to ensure attainment of the learning outcomes. However, clinical supervision has been more often than not ignored, and thus there is an indispensable need to establish a supervision framework in each of the medical colleges for the benefit of the students and the society at large.