National Evaluation Center Activities
Enhancing Training Through Excellence and Innovation
- Building Community Through evaluation conference calls, face-to-face meetings, an advisory board, and a quarterly newsletter, our program allows evaluators to learn from their peers around the country
- Facilitating Collaboration Our current projects focus on cross-regional evaluation approaches
- Supporting Innovation Our pilot projects allow us to work with regional AETCs to test and implement innovative approaches to evaluation
- Increasing Capacity, Enhancing Quality Working with regional AETCs, we are assisting with targeted evaluation of MAI-funded programs
- Providing Expertise Our faculty and staff are available to provide technical assistance to regional and local training centers
What's New?
Clinical Vignettes Online: A Tool for Measuring the Effectiveness of HIV Clinical Training
The AETC NEC is charged with increasing the capacity of local training providers to measure the outcomes of their training activities, specifically as they relate to changing the clinical practice behavior of the healthcare professionals trained. In order to measure the effectiveness of intensive, hands-on clinical training activities, the AETC NEC has developed a set of HIV patient vignettes simulating clinical practice, and an interactive online tool allowing trainees to respond as if providing care. Based on methods developed, validated and tested to measure the quality of care, the AETC NEC has adapted the approach so that when vignettes are administered before and after training, changes in trainees' scores reflect learning.
For more information on Clinical Vignettes Online, please see our brochure and website.