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Interactive Training Modalities


Level 1: Short, Interactive Training Events

  • Aimed at sharing information through brief training events that facilitate the recruitment of healthcare professionals and teams for more intensive training programs


Level 2: Interactive Capacity Building and Expansion Events

Level 3: Preceptorships for Intensive Experiential Learning

  • Aimed at providing training events for knowledge transfer and facilitating changes in practice, policy, and operations in clinics, programs, and individual healthcare providers

    • Preceptorship Clinical Scholars Program: A new intensive and experiential learning opportunity that connects traditional didactic education, case-based learning, and evidence-based clinical practice. This program offers interactive virtual training led by regional HIV experts, complemented by local hands-on education and skill development.


Level 4: Communities of Practice (CoP) and IPE

  • Aimed at engaging HCPs and teams in communities of practice (CoP) who share a concern, issues to increase knowledge and expertise by interacting regularly and providing interprofessional education (IPE) to educate health professions faculty on the advantages and approaches to IPE and assist them in disseminating the content and methods within the health professions curricula in a range of disciplines


Level 5: Technical Assistance for Practice Transformation and Capacity Building

  • Aimed at providing clinical, organizational, system-focused technical assistance (TA), or capacity building through either distance-based or on-site approaches in the field.

    • This includes working with specific Ryan White programs or FQHCs to facilitate practice transformation, thereby expanding capacity and expertise to provide comprehensive HIV clinical services and/or increasing HIV prevention, testing, linkage to care, and access to PrEP in primary care settings.

Effective Education Methods to Educate Health Care Professionals

  • Use evidence-based education methods with proven efficacy to impact clinical care
  • Employ innovative methods to identify the needs of target audiences
  • Disseminate clinical guidelines and best practices to improve health care provider knowledge and skills
  • Engage clinical and content experts who are also skilled trainers.

 

Support Workforce Development

  • Educate healthcare professionals from various disciplines
  • Utilize resources from academic medical centers that provide in-kind services and expertise.
  • Engage HIV specialists and other clinical experts for integration into training programs
  • Disseminate cutting-edge, evidence-based information
  • Focus on each point in the HIV care continuum to minimize morbidity and mortality
  • Maintain clinically competent patient care treatment teams through training and technical assistance
  • Respond rapidly to emerging needs of health care professionals based upon epidemiology, the health care system, research findings, and trends.
  • Provide coordinated responses to these needs
  • Facilitate practice change through clinical training

 

Build Capacity

  • Facilitate change in health care systems
  • Bring national expertise to regional and local care systems
  • Mobilize community health centers and primary care facilities
  • Respond rapidly to local and state emerging needs
  • Provide coordinated responses to address unmet needs
  • Identify and connect with medically underserved communities to deliver training

 

Leverage Technology

  • Utilize web-based training and telehealth technologies to meet the specific needs of healthcare professionals
  • Disseminate materials and resources on HIV best practices to promote access to up-to-date information and tools for patient care
  • Facilitate collaboration and peer learning through distance-based interactive training and communities of practice
  • Connect healthcare providers with expert clinicians throughout the region to provide on-demand clinical guidance and technical assistance on HIV care, treatment, and co-occurring care concerns

Our Online Learning Platform – The Learner Education and Practice Portal (LEAPP)

  • The LEAPP system was specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the AIDS Education and Training Centers.
  • Licensed as Software as a Service (SaaS) by the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute, LEAPP offers a platform for data management, evaluation, and quality control.
  • It also serves as a centralized online space to facilitate interaction between trainees and local partners, as well as training programs and technical assistance.
  • Additionally, LEAPP supports trainee recruitment, user tracking, data collection, and collaboration among local partners.

MAAETC Program Brochures:

Effective Education Methods to Educate Health Care Professionals

  • Use evidence-based education methods with proven efficacy to impact clinical care
  • Employ innovative methods to identify the needs of target audiences
  • Disseminate clinical guidelines and best practices to improve health care provider knowledge and skills
  • Engage clinical and content experts who are also skilled trainers.

 

Support Workforce Development

  • Educate healthcare professionals from various disciplines
  • Utilize resources from academic medical centers that provide in-kind services and expertise.
  • Engage HIV specialists and other clinical experts for integration into training programs
  • Disseminate cutting-edge, evidence-based information
  • Focus on each point in the HIV care continuum to minimize morbidity and mortality
  • Maintain clinically competent patient care treatment teams through training and technical assistance
  • Respond rapidly to emerging needs of health care professionals based upon epidemiology, the health care system, research findings, and trends.
  • Provide coordinated responses to these needs
  • Facilitate practice change through clinical training

 

Build Capacity

  • Facilitate change in health care systems
  • Bring national expertise to regional and local care systems
  • Mobilize community health centers and primary care facilities
  • Respond rapidly to local and state emerging needs
  • Provide coordinated responses to address unmet needs
  • Identify and connect with medically underserved communities to deliver training

 

Leverage Technology

  • Utilize web-based training and telehealth technologies to meet the specific needs of healthcare professionals
  • Disseminate materials and resources on HIV best practices to promote access to up-to-date information and tools for patient care
  • Facilitate collaboration and peer learning through distance-based interactive training and communities of practice
  • Connect healthcare providers with expert clinicians throughout the region to provide on-demand clinical guidance and technical assistance on HIV care, treatment, and co-occurring care concerns

Our Online Learning Platform – The Learner Education and Practice Portal (LEAPP)

  • The LEAPP system was specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the AIDS Education and Training Centers.
  • Licensed as Software as a Service (SaaS) by the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute, LEAPP offers a platform for data management, evaluation, and quality control.
  • It also serves as a centralized online space to facilitate interaction between trainees and local partners, as well as training programs and technical assistance.
  • Additionally, LEAPP supports trainee recruitment, user tracking, data collection, and collaboration among local partners.