Health and medical

Training the people the system depends on

Curio works with medical colleges, health services and professional bodies on specialist training, assessment, accreditation and continuing professional development.

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The problem

Clinical expertise and teaching expertise are not the same thing

Health education carries a burden most sectors do not. The consequence of someone finishing a program without really being able to do the work is not a poor completion statistic. Training has to hold up to regulators, to colleges, and to the people on the receiving end of the care.

Most of the teaching is done by clinicians whose expertise is clinical. They are rarely given the time, the design support or the assessment tools that would let them teach as well as they practise.

We work on the parts that decide whether a program produces capability: selection and pathway design, curriculum and assessment, the evidence a college needs to accredit, and the systems that carry it.

Where we help

Specialist training pathways

Designing and reviewing training programs, entry pathways and progression, with the feasibility work and business cases behind a change before anyone commits to it.

Assessment and examinations

Assessment that measures real clinical capability rather than recall, and the technology roadmap to deliver examinations at scale without losing rigour.

Continuing professional development

CPD that practising clinicians will actually complete, built around short, applicable learning that fits between shifts rather than around a course calendar.

Governance and accreditation evidence

Reviewing programs against standards and producing the evidence a college, regulator or accrediting body expects to see.

Cultural safety

Learning designed with the communities it concerns, not about them, so it changes practice rather than satisfying a requirement.

Platform and delivery

The LMS, assessment and credentialing systems underneath the program, connected so clinicians and administrators are not fighting the tooling.

Case studies

Health and medical work

Professional learning

Sizing the real international opportunity

Online CPD already made up around 30% of the Australian Physiotherapy Association's revenue. We sized where international growth was genuinely real rather than assumed, and set out how to pursue it.

Vocational and further education

Redesigning a mental health qualification

Chisholm Institute's Certificate IV in Mental Health had served students well while the workforce moved on. We redesigned it around digital literacy, trauma-informed practice and cultural competence.

Enterprise

Defining child safeguarding in five weeks

Ten humanitarian organisations wanted portable digital credentials but had no shared definition of child safeguarding. In five weeks we built seventeen foundational competencies the whole Alliance could recruit and train against.

Professional learning

Getting workforce guidance to NHS managers

Building a mental health support workforce at NHS scale means getting guidance to managers and planners quickly. We built a digital toolkit for the National Workforce Skills Development Unit at Tavistock and Portman.

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