AETC Training Levels Overview

Date of Report: 2003
Source: Pacific AETC

Overview

Level I

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 II

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. (Formerly Level II and some Level IIIA activities)

Level III

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 IV

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 V

Technical assistance offered by the local performance site.

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