Faculty educators
Practice the conversations you are expected to lead
Last updated: September 2026
Rehearse corrective feedback, professionalism concerns, and bedside teaching in private. See which elements of the framework you hit and which you skipped, in your own words, before you have the conversation with a learner or colleague.
What's at stake
Faculty model skills they never practiced
Giving structured feedback, handling defensiveness, and running a professionalism conversation are learned skills that faculty can rehearse before leading them in person.
Faculty need evidence they can inspect
A private report scores the conversation against the framework on the case and quotes what the faculty member said under each score, so they can see what worked and what to practice before discussing it with a coach.
No consistent feedback loop
Faculty can rehearse a corrective feedback conversation in private and review the report before leading it with a learner or colleague.
Professionalism conversations get avoided
Addressing a peer's lateness, disengagement, or underperformance is uncomfortable, so it's often deferred, and unaddressed concerns escalate into larger problems for the team and the program.
The numbers
frameworks selected for each faculty conversation
structured feedback frameworks built into the scenarios
private, on-demand practice from any device
generates structured, rubric-scored feedback
How ClinicalSim helps
Rehearse corrective feedback
Practice delivering corrective feedback to a learner with structure (Pendleton, SBI) and handling defensiveness, before the real conversation, not during it.
Address professionalism concerns
Work through addressing lateness, disengagement, or a colleague performing below expectations directly, without damaging the working relationship.
Practice bedside teaching
Practice teach-back from the teacher's side, calibrating to the learner's level and protecting time for questions, with feedback tied to the transcript.
One platform for learners and teachers
Faculty development scenarios use the same engine and dashboard as learner scenarios, with frameworks selected for the faculty conversation rather than a trainee milestone.
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Questions we get from this seat
Where do faculty actually learn to give structured corrective feedback?
Faculty can rehearse structured feedback, defensiveness, and professionalism conversations before leading them in person. ClinicalSim cases use named feedback frameworks such as Pendleton and SBI, with a private report that shows what worked and what to practice next.
How can a faculty member prepare for a professionalism conversation with a peer?
Addressing a colleague's lateness, disengagement, or underperformance is uncomfortable, so it gets deferred, and deferred concerns grow into larger problems for the team and the program. Rehearsing the conversation produces a rubric-scored report with the transcript evidence behind each score, which a faculty member can read before deciding how to open the real conversation.
Is faculty practice private?
Yes. Faculty practice on demand from any device with no observer in the encounter, and they review the rubric and the transcript themselves before sharing anything with a coach or program. Faculty development scenarios use the same engine and dashboard as learner scenarios, with frameworks chosen for the faculty conversation rather than a trainee milestone.