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Teach the Teacher
High-school students often encounter sexual health problems. Teachers are their most trusted source for information about such issues. To enhance teacher knowledge around this topic, the Teach the Teacher program was created. Medical students teach education students about sexual health issues, empowering education students to deal with these issues once they become teachers. Medical students also learn vital skills about educating members of the community without a medical background.
A pilot for Teach the Teacher was run at the University of Melbourne in 2007. From December 2006, 20 medical students prepared three one-hour lectures about sexual health issues. These were entitled Contraception, STIs and Teenage Pregnancy. This was done in conjunction with the Faculties of Education and Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne; the Australian Medical Association Victoria; AMAV Doctors in Training; and Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS. The lectures were presented in October 2007 and received endorsement from the Dean of the Faculty of Education to be called the Dean’s Seminar Series.
A structured questionnaire was distributed to education students following the lectures to assess the pilot. Overall, the program received positive feedback throughout and will be incorporated into the University of Melbourne Masters of Education Program from 2008. It is hoped that in years to come it will be broadened to include Mental Health, Nutrition, and Drugs and Alcohol. It is also hoped that it will be introduced at Monash University in 2009 and continue to grow from there across the country and possibly internationally.
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