Facilitator Learning Guides accompany a number of Foundation programs. These Guides are designed to augment the Foundation’s materials and increase useability of the television programs in a variety of health and medical education and training settings. They are particularly suitable for ‘non educator’ health professionals to use in small group or peer learning situations.
The guides provide activities and discussion triggers for health professionals developing their own education sessions around the programs. Integrating the television program material in its entirety or specific sections with the activities and supporting written and visual materials will provide a complete ‘ready to use’ education package.
Each Facilitator Learning Guide is designed to be used with a core adult learning guide. Facilitating Groups of Learners is designed to provide basic instruction to assist face-to-face training. Facilitating Groups of Learners provides:
- Information and advice about the way adults learn.
- The learning environment.
- Key learning principles.
- The “4MAT system” for conceptualising topic and content.
- Use of learning resources.
- Instructional design and session planning.
- Communication and managing group dynamics.
- Evaluation.
These Guides are all published digitally by the Rural Health Education Foundation and are accessible from this page. The Guides and accompanying slides (all in pdf format) may be downloaded for small group learning or individual use. Note that copyright laws apply * and the Rural Heath Education Foundation should be acknowledged as the developer of the materials in all instances.
Facilitator Learning Guides currently available
A Guide to Facilitating Adult Learning (771 
PDF) – This booklet will support all group learning activities for the Rural Health Education Foundation.
1002 -Aged Care Assessment Program
- 1002 Learning Guide (364kb, PDF)
913s - Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Guideline Series
- 913s Learning Guide (507kb PDF)
808 - Smoking and Pregnancy: Womb to Breathe
- 808 Learning Guide (857kb, PDF)
807 - Across the Lifespan: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Checks and Lifescripts
- 807 Learning Guide (939kb, PDF)
803 - An Ounce of Prevention: MBS Item 717, the 45-49 year old Health Check
- 803 Learning Guide (518kb, PDF)
- 718a - Continence and Men’s Health - Learning Guide (503kb, PDF)
- 718b - Continence: Children and Adolescents - Learning Guide (491kb, PDF)
- 718c - Improving Bowel Continence - Learning Guide (669kb, PDF)
716 - Another Shade of Blue: Depression in Older Australians
- 716 Learning Guide (416kb, PDF)
711 - Better Access to Mental Health Care
- 711 Learning Guide (370kb, PDF)
702 - No One Size Fits All: Alcohol Treatment Guidelines for Indigenous Australians
- 702 Learning Guide (345kb, PDF)
701 - Chlamydia: Combating the Epidemic
- 701 Learning Guide (302kb, PDF)
- 616a - Dementia: Assessment and Diagnosis - Learning Guide (825kb, PDF)
- 616b - Dementia and Physical Co-morbidity - Learning Guide (769kb, PDF)
- 616c - Dementia, Mental Health and Neurological Co-morbidities - Learning Guide (785kb, PDF)
- 616d - Quality Use of Medicine in Dementia Care - Learning Guide (604kb, PDF)
- 616e - Dementia: Carers and Families - Learning Guide (422kb, PDF)
Unless otherwise indicated, all of these guides are copyright by the Rural Health Education Foundation. Individuals and institutions may download and reproduce these materials for free on the following conditions: The Rural Health Education Foundation is to be acknowledged in all instances. You may not edit the materials, change the covers or re-brand them in any way whatsoever. You may not sell the materials or charge for their use. You may not distribute them to any person or organisation, other than in bona fide training situations within your own institution. You may not post these materials on a publicly available website, or similar publicly available electronic or digital storage facility. Please read our Terms of Use and Disclaimer before using our programs. If you have any questions about the use, please contact the Rural Health Education Foundation.