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Tool C-5:
MVA 301: Guidance on Setting Up and Running Clinical Practicum
INSTRUCTIONS: Use this guide for facilitators to ensure that all components of running a clinical practicum are in
place and for trainers/presenters to study in advance of practicum for specific guidance and suggestions on planning
and conducting a clinical practicum. There is only one version of this guidance tool.
Advance Preparation
❑ Ensure that all learners have reached competency in simulated skills practice prior to
partaking in the clinical practicum.
❑ Obtain approval for site(s) used for training.
❑ Plan the design of the practicum.
❑ Organize trainers and discuss their roles, emphasizing teamwork.
❑ Determine how to involve practicum-site staff in the practicum.
Clinical Practicum
Note to trainer:
This document may need to be adapted for your setting. Consider the length of time needed and available for
practice, the order of topics, the need for additional trainers, the amount of review required at the start of each topic
and other logistics when adapting the module.
❑ Determine what each learners’ role will be during the practicum.
❑ Determine how to configure teams of learners and trainers.
❑ Arrange for learners to observe or assist with care for women with complications.
❑ Prepare and duplicate materials (flipcharts, checklists, evaluation forms).
❑ Ensure readiness of equipment and supplies needed for the practicum.
❑ Have alternative activities ready for learners to do when client caseload is slow.
❑ Review the Clinical Training Approaches and Coaching Skills session of the Effective Training
in Reproductive Health: Course Design and Delivery Trainer’s Manual.
❑ Review Conducting This Clinical Practicum (below).
Conducting This Clinical Practicum
Time required
The time required for this clinical practicum can vary significantly depending on the practicum design, the needs
and skills of learners, the amount of time available, and many other factors.
Format
This practicum module is divided into practicum sessions by skill set. The content of each session reflects the
module of the same name in the didactic part of this training. Each session of the practicum should begin with a
short content review—a mini-lecture using flipcharts and a review of the checklist(s) for that skill. After completing
the content and checklist review, brief learners on the details of the session and then release them to their
assignments. At the end of each practice session, have learners regroup to debrief and discuss.
Designing the Practicum
❑ The design of the practicum depends on the needs of the learners and realities of the practicum site. Determine
whether the practicum can be held with several learners and several trainers at one time at the same site or at several
sites at the same time. A modular or other adapted approach can be used, staggering place, times, learners,
trainers and/or skills.
• Consider designing the practicum so that learners practice skills that logically go together during clinical
care.
• Utilize the time well.
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