Educational Supervision sucks. It's often pointless and you can't cover enough in the time available to you. How is a rushed meeting that you've had to come in early for helpful? I don't think it matters as much in the smaller departments where you work with your supervisor often, but in big departments...you never work with your department.
How about a weekly email update? The student can detail their progress, together with 3 good things and 3 things they need to work on. The tutor can read, comment if needed, and send 3 good things and 3 bad things. Maybe weekly is too often - but it is good to touch base.
I have no idea how I'm doing at the moment. I have this subjective feeling that I'm really bad at referring to the medics - but I'm not sure why...or how to work on it. It'd be good to know if this could be improved upon.
So why not have the Consultants supervise the SpRs who supervise the SHOs who supervise the FYs. Then the Consultants might have time to support the SpRs properly...
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