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Training Approaches
MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center

Level I: Didactic Presentation

Level I training activities are primarily didactic presentations, but can also include, panel discussions, self-instructional materials, journal clubs, teleconferences, etc. Programs vary in length from brief lectures to conferences.

 

Level II: Skill Building Workshop

Level II training activities are primarily interactive and skills-building activities characterized by active trainee participation. These training activities may include interactive learning through discussion of cases supplied by trainer, role play, simulated patients, and train the trainer and other skill building activities.

 

Level III: Clinical Training

The clinical training utilizes experienced HIV clinicians, researchers and clinical education and experiences to provide clinicians involved in HIV care with the latest information on prevention, treatment, and clinical management of HIV diseases.  These programs include:

* Individualized Clinician Training or Clinical Mini-Residencies: These clinical experiences are offered in a range of clinical settings within the region to increase clinical competencies in the management of HIV patients.

* Training and Education Programs: Comprehensive case based learning and skill building programs on clinical aspects of care, treatment and prevention provided by expert HIV clinicians.


Level IV: Clinical Consultation

* Case-Based Clinical Consultation:  This includes patient specific clinical consultation to address a current issue with the clinical treatment of a patient with HIV disease, improve patient outcomes, and provide opportunities for ongoing clinical support for clinicians.  Such consultation can be accomplished “on-site” or through distance based technologies.

* Clinical Administrative Consultation:  Provisions of clinically-focused consultation with  a specific program or agency to assist in improving program performance, efficiency, problem solving, planning, and continuous quality improvement.

* Service System Consultation:  Provision of ongoing continuous support, resources, and guidance for the HIV care system to improve HIV service delivery, coordination to improve access to quality HIV care.


Level V: Technical Assistance

* Technical assistance with systems and institutional policy development

* Technical assistance with clinic, organization policies and procedures.

* Information dissemination of most current, treatment information and research findings from journals, reports, and other publications.

* Technical support through provision of information, linkages to other resources to increase, improve, or expand clinical, support or prevention services.

 

Longitudinal Training.

As the AETC program is directed to focus on longitudinal training for health professions, the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center has been tracking trainees who attend more than one level of training program.  There are a significant number of individuals who attend Level II and III programs as well as Level I and II programs which demonstrate progression of involvement in AETC programming.