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JHPIEGO's ModCal® for
Clinical Training Skills Receives Gold Cindy Award
(February 2001)
JHPIEGO's ModCal (Modified Computer-Assisted Learning) for Clinical Training Skills (CTS) has taken top honors in the Spring 2000 Edition of the 42nd annual Cinema in Industry competitions. The software received a gold International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) award, placing in the top 15 percent of the Business, Industry and Government interactive multimedia category.
JHPIEGO shares this honor with LearnWare® International Corporation, the designer of JHPIEGO's interactive multimedia courseware, including ModCal for Clinical Training Skills and ModCal for IUD Services.
ModCal for Clinical Training Skills was designed to help healthcare providers become more effective preservice faculty members or inservice trainers. The content of the modules is taken from the JHPIEGO Clinical Training Skills for Reproductive Health Professionals reference manual, 2nd edition. Candidate clinical trainers complete the ModCal instruction and then practice their newly acquired skills under the guidance of an advanced or master trainer.The CD-ROMs, ModCal for CTS and ModCal for IUD Services, combine the best aspects of computer-assisted learning--flexibility, standardization and cost-effectiveness--with JHPIEGO's competency-based learning approach. Interactive computer modules provide self-paced or minimum-guidance learning that multiplies the effectiveness of existing staff, increases the efficiency of training and delivers standardized, up-to-date information. The ModCal CD-ROM is intended for use with other learning materials including the reference manual, trainer's notebook and participant's handbook.
In December, JHPIEGO conducted a CTS course at Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles, California, USA. The course was the fifth in a series of USAID-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities activities aimed at developing a core group of trainers at the University's International Health Institute. Using ModCal, JHPIEGO was able to implement a 2-part approach to the course. Ten participants worked independently to complete the CTS ModCal CD-ROM and develop individual presentations for practice and feedback. Having worked through the ModCal on their own, participants came together for the second part of the course, a 3-day group session to review key concepts, observe training skills in action, ask questions and present their practice presentations and clinical demonstrations for feedback.
This 2-part approach for implementing ModCal for CTS will be used this spring in a course in Zambia. ModCal for CTS, which is also available in JHPIEGO's computer centers in Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda and Uzbekistan, is being translated into Bahasa for use in Indonesia.
For more information contact Learning and Performance Support Director, Rick Sullivan.