AETC Training Levels

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The AETC training levels range from lectures to clinical consultations and programmatic technical assistance. This section provides background information, resources, and examples of activities under each of the five levels of training. Descriptions of the levels are from the Pacific AETC. (Learn more)

	Level 1: Didactic Presentations 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 from brief lectures to conferences.

	Level 2: Skills Building Workshops 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 3: Clinical Training Training that includes activities where the trainee is actively involved with actual clinical care experiences involving patients. These may include preceptorships, "mini-residencies," or observation of clinical care at either the AETC training site or the trainee's worksite.

	Level 4: Clinical Consultation Training that includes patient-specific clinical consultation provided to health care professionals. Characteristics of this level of training are: 1) interaction between two clinicians, 2) training initiated by trainee/topic selected by trainee and based on a patient-specific clinical question, 3) discussion of state of the art clinical care, 4) communication via telephone, electronic media, or in person on-site at trainee location, 5) no direct contact between patient and trainer, 6) interaction supported financially or administratively by AETC funds. These training activities may include clinical consultation, case based discussion with cases supplied by trainee, or clinical consultation on-site at trainee's clinical setting.

	Level 5: Technical Assistance Technical assistance offered by the local performance site.

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