Meet our SPDP Facilitator, Professor Robyn Lucas

Facilitator Training

The Supervisor Professional Development Program (SPDP) is the College’s supervisor training program. To maintain the integrity of SPDP, all workshops and online courses are facilitated by a RACP Fellow.

If you are interested in becoming a SPDP facilitator, register for our one-day upcoming virtual facilitation workshops or complete our online facilitation course. You can complete the online facilitation course at your own pace, in your own time. MyCPD credits are available for both formats.

Meet our SPDP Facilitator Professor Robyn Lucas

As an original collaborator on the Supervisor Professional Development Program (SPDP) Professor Robyn Lucas, a Public Health Medicine (PHM) physician, has been supporting the roll-out in various ways for the best part of a decade.

Why do you facilitate SPDP workshops?

My initial motivation was to make it easier for PHM Fellows to complete the supervisor requirements (at least one SPDP workshop completed by the end of 2021 and all of them by the end of 2022) and to make what was on offer less clinical and more relevant and engaging to public health medicine fellows. But, as the current President of the AFPHM this is also a really great opportunity to meet up with Fellows, given that there has been, and likely will be, no opportunity to travel to meet them in their own jurisdictions.

What is the most enjoyable part of your role as an SPDP facilitator?

It is very enjoyable to co-facilitate with another Fellow, but the best part is the good conversations and discussion about the material during the workshops.

Why do you think your colleagues should complete the SPDP workshops?

I have supervised students for a number of years, both academic and public health medicine. Every supervisor workshop in either sphere teaches me something new and gives me new tools to improve my supervision or new opportunities to reflect on. I would like to encourage my colleagues to complete the workshops first because it is a requirement in order to be able to continue to supervise trainees (and as President of the AFPHM, I really want to have a strong pool of supervisors at a time when we are experiencing a lot of interest from young doctors in public health medicine), but also because I have found the SPDP workshops an enjoyable learning experience as well as being very collegiate.

Register for SPDP Workshops

Register to attend a SPDP face-to-face or virtual workshop or the online course.

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For more information contact the Supervisor Learning Support Team supervisor@racp.edu.au.