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Educational Programs
The
AETC offers educational programs for a
wide variety of health care
professionals including physicians,
nurses, physician assistants, nurse
practitioners, dentists, dental
hygienists, mental health providers, and
others. Programs have been designed on
the following five levels according to
the experience, knowledge, and needs of
trainees:
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Level I
trainings activities are primarily
didactic presentations, but can also
include, panel discussions,
self-instructional materials,
journal clubs, teleconferences, etc.
Participants are often passive
learners, with programs varying in
length form brief lectures to
conferences.
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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.
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Level III
training includes activities where
the trainee is actively involved
with actual clinical care
experiences involving patients.
These may include preceptorships.
'Mini-residencies', or observation
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Level IV
trainings consist of
patient-specific clinical
consultation provided to health care
professionals. Characteristics of
this level of training are: |
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interactions between two
clinicians
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training initiated by
trainee/topic selected by
trainee and based on a
patient-specific clinical
question
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discussion of state of the art
clinical care
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communication via telephone,
electronic media, or in person
on-site at trainee location
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interaction supported
financially or administratively
by AETC funds. These trainings
may include clinical
consultation, cased-based
discussion with cases supplied
by trainee, or clinical
consultation on-site at
trainee's setting (formerly
Level IIIC).
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Level V
activities include technical
assistance offered by the AETC
Program. |
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