From Critique to Coaching: Elevating Feedback in Clinical Education

Instructor: Michael Hodges 9/25/2026 | 12:50 PM – 1:50 PM Online Most clinical instructors know the feeling: you spend time giving a student detailed feedback, only to watch them freeze up, get defensive, or make the exact same mistake the next day. Traditional student clinical feedback can often feel like a personal criticism. Coaching, on the other hand, actively builds clinical skills in real time and can have a greater impact on a student’s journey towards clinical autonomy. This session offered practical strategies to help you shift from simply critiquing student performance to coaching for future clinical independence. Whether you are taking your very first clinical student or have been mentoring learners for decades, this presentation will give you simple, actionable tools to make feedback more productive, less stressful, and far more impactful.