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Faculty and Trainer Development Pathway

Classroom Faculty Qualification Criteria

Classroom Faculty: A faculty member who can impart knowledge to others, but who does not train others in clinical skills in a clinic or hospital setting. They may be able to demonstrate certain clinical skills on models in the classroom. These health professionals usually function in preservice settings, most commonly in nursing and midwifery schools, and are frequently called "tutors." To become qualified classroom faculty, the individual completes a CTS course emphasizing classroom presentation and demonstration skills and is then observed and coached by a qualified advanced or master trainer while presenting the classroom portion of the FP/RH component of the preservice curriculum.

It is strongly recommended that the followup observation and coaching needed to move from candidate classroom faculty to qualified classroom faculty take place within 1 year after completion of the CTS course, preferably during the FP/RH portion of the curriculum. If it does not take place within 1 year, the candidate classroom faculty should receive a refresher in clinical training skills or repeat the CTS course before followup by a qualified advanced or master trainer.

Candidate Classroom Faculty – an individual who fulfills the following requirements:

Updated FP/RH knowledge

Standardized clinical skill(s) with anatomical models (where appropriate, i.e., where they will be called upon to perform classroom demonstrations on models of specified clinical skills)

Completed a CTS course that focuses on classroom presentation and demonstration skills. Any CS training is conducted on models only.

Qualification form submitted by the qualified advanced or master trainer following the CTS course resulting in the person being entered into the JHPIEGO Faculty and Trainer Database as candidate classroom faculty

Qualified Classroom Faculty – a candidate classroom faculty who fulfills the following requirements:

Successfully presented the FP/RH component of the curriculum while being observed and coached by a qualified advanced or master trainer who has determined the faculty person to be competent (completed a practicum)

Qualification form submitted by the qualified advanced or master trainer following the practicum resulting in the person being upgraded in the JHPIEGO Faculty and Trainer Database as qualified classroom faculty

Because qualified classroom faculty have not been assessed on their ability to perform and teach clinical skills with clients, they cannot move on to become advanced and master trainers according to the established JHPIEGO definitions. They can, however, participate in ATS and ID workshops. If at a later point in time they acquire competency in specific clinical skills and demonstrate competency in working with models and clients to transfer these skills to others, they can then continue forward on the clinical trainer development pathway detailed earlier. A faculty person who has been qualified and functions as a clinical trainer (imparting knowledge and transferring clinical skills to others with clients) should be reclassified as such in the Faculty and Trainer Database.

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