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Clinical Trainer Qualification Criteria

Clinical Trainer (also known as clinical skills trainer): A trainer who can transfer clinical skills to healthcare providers. A clinical trainer must demonstrate proficiency in the clinical FP/RH service(s) for which s/he will be providing clinical training as well as competency in CTS. This individual is competent in both classroom presentation skills and clinical skills demonstration and coaching and assessment with models and clients, that is, the trainer is prepared to facilitate both the classroom and clinical portions of a CS course. These trainers may be active in either the inservice training or preservice education arenas; many medical school faculty, for example, fall into this category as they provide classroom instruction and are also proficient in clinical skills. To become a qualified clinical trainer, the clinician must successfully complete a knowledge update, skills standardization and a CTS course and practicum (i.e., conduct a CS course with a qualified advanced or master trainer).

It is strongly recommended that the practicum experience needed to move from candidate clinical trainer to qualified clinical trainer take place within 6 months after completion of the CTS course. If it does not take place within 1 year, the candidate clinical trainer should receive a refresher in clinical training skills or repeat the CTS course before conducting a CS course with a qualified advanced or master trainer.

Candidate Clinical Trainer – a healthcare provider who fulfills the following requirements:

Proficient in a specific skill area (e.g., IUDs, infection prevention [IP], maternal/neonatal health [MNH])

Updated FP/RH knowledge in a specific skill area

Standardized clinical skill(s)

Completed a CTS course

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 a candidate clinical trainer

Qualified Clinical Trainer – a candidate clinical trainer who fulfills the following requirements:

Successfully conducted one or more CS (e.g., IUDs, IP, MNH) courses while being coached by a qualified advanced or master trainer who has determined the clinical trainer 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 to a qualified clinical trainer.

A clinical trainer is qualified to train healthcare providers in a specific clinical skill (e.g., IUDs, IP, MNH). In order to add additional clinical skills for which the trainer is qualified to provide training, the trainer must successfully complete a knowledge update and skill standardization for the new skill, including a review and discussion of the standard course schedule for that skill (e.g., Norplant, minilaparotomy). Repetition of the CTS course is not required. The advanced or master trainer who conducts the knowledge update and skills standardization will submit a Qualification Form to add these areas of qualification to the clinical trainer’s file in the Faculty and Trainer Database.

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