Registration Form for HPs-KITT Course 2025
Training for the Trainers: Health Professions – Key Ideas for Teachers and Trainers
(HPs-KITT Course) in August 13-14, 2025 at Holiday Inn Bangkok Sukhumvit, Sukhumvit 22, Klongton Subdistrict, Klongtoey District , Bangkok, Thailand
Section 1: HPs-KITT Course Information
Praboromarajchanok Institute (PBRI) is an educational institute for health
sciences under the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand. Its main mission is to produce a skilled
health workforce for Thailand’s health system, focusing on primary
health care. According to PBRI strategies and policies, health graduates
must have abilities to become 1) critical thinkers 2) communicators 3) collaborators, and 4) creators; these are called “4Cs”. PBRI does not only produce skillful health workforce for the country,
but also provides academic services, conducts research, and creates healthcare
innovation for improving people’s quality of life sustainably.
Background to the Course
Important changes are taking place in health professions education with additional demands on teachers and trainers. The course serves as an introduction to these changes both for those with new responsibilities for teaching and training in the healthcare professions, or as an update for those with more experience.
The course has been designed by leaders in the field of health professions education to meet the needs of teachers and trainers from all regions of the world working across the continuum of undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education.
Reasons for participating
1. Familiarise yourself with the important trends taking place in curriculum planning, teaching, learning and assessment, and the use of new technologies in health professions education.
2. Explore some new ideas to used in your teaching or training programme with the aim of making learning for your students and trainees more effective and efficient.
3. Gain an insight into your different roles and responsibilities as a teacher or trainer.
4. Share and discuss the application of new ideas with others.
5. Increase your job satisfaction as a teacher or trainer.
Course outline
A series of key ideas in health professions education with a theoretical and practical foundation provides a basis for the course with participants given the opportunity to reflect on and consider their adoption and implementation in their own teaching practice. A range of education strategies is introduced and explored in relation to the five stages of a student’s engagement in their learning: interest; commitment; facilitation; future-proofing; and assessment.
Module 1: The curriculum and stages of learner engagement
• What is a curriculum and why is it important?
• The roles of key stakeholders
• The stages of learner engagement in the curriculum journey
Module 2: Interesting the learner - stage 1 of learner engagement
• An authentic curriculum
- On-the-job learning
- Technology enhanced learning
- Presentation based learning
• Co-creating the curriculum
Module 3: Commitment by the learner - stage 2 of learner engagement
• Outcome/competency based education
• Mapping of the curriculum journey
• Equity, diversity and inclusion
Module 4: Facilitation of learning - stage 3 of learner engagement
• The teacher’s toolkit and fusion learning
• Guided learning
- personal tutor, study guides and AI
• Precision (Personalised) education
Module 5: Preparation for lifelong learning - stage 4 of learner engagement
• Future-proofing the learner
- Just-in-time learning
- Self-directed learning
- Self-assessment
Module 6: Assessment - stage 5 of learner engagement
• The school’s assessment PROFILE
- Impact of assessment
- Authentic assessment
- Competency based assessment
- Assessment for learning
- Learner engagement with assessment
- Assessment-led innovation
