Continuing education: An alternative to respecialization in clinical neuropsychology

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This presentation aims to extend the concept of a Learning and Assessment Center to the establishment and maintenance of competencies for the practice of clinical neuropsychology. The resulting process would begin with an analysis of current practices in the field for the purpose of identifying competencies. After reduction into performance objectives, the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes for reaching performance objectives would then be specified. Standardized training protocols and modules would be developed for use at selected sites where necessary supplementary course work can be provided and where the instructional methodology necessary for communicating with individuals in the field is available. The interested trainee in the field would need access to the autotutorial technology required for relating to the central facilities and for processing the sample cases and case simulations necessary for learning. The educational materials would be replicable and exportable to virtually any site that could provide the necessary materials and time/access for the professional in the field. Any resulting modules could be articulated with sponsored conferences and workshops for the purpose of maximizing educational yield, stated in competency-based terms, in what would become a systematic and comprehensive continuing education process. By beginning with the assessment of individual needs or insufficiencies, this model could provide an alternative to respecialization as a means of adding necessary basic scientific knowledge, applied generic core competencies, and specialized clinical neuropsychological competencies for effective practice at an advanced level. The model's flexibility hopefully would serve individuals with the entire range of continuing education needs encountered in a vital and progressive new clinical specialty.

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