[Pedagogical Quality Cercle: a new tool for ambulatory clinical supervisors]

Supervisors in clinical practice need to engage in continuous education so as to acquire the appropriate pedagogical tools to continue improving their teaching abilities. A new monthly « Pedagogical Quality Cercle » (PQC) has recently been developed to provide a virtual and innovative exchange of practices focused on supervisors' difficulties during clinical placements. The article presents the conceptual framework of PQC and their teaching communities of practice and gives an example of a typical exchange between PQC facilitators and clinical teachers during a session. Future developments of CQP sessions are discussed to show how they will contribute to the improvement of the teaching skills of clinical supervisors in French-speaking Switzerland.