Abortion Care Principal Trainers need both educational and clinical skills to provide effective training and assessment of the practical elements of the ACSM.
To become a Principal Trainer, you will need to meet these requirements:
Be one of the following:
- Consultant or
- Specialty Doctor or
- Treatment Doctor/Surgeon in ISP or
- GP Trainer or
- Nurse
Meet one of the following criteria:
- Hold the CoSRH Postgraduate Award in Medical Education in SRH
- Hold the discontinued CoSRH LoC Med
- Hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education
- Attended a Training the Trainers course or equivalent (including training in assessment and feedback methodology)
- Be a College Registered Trainer (CRT)
You must also fulfil the criteria below:
- Currently actively involved in providing abortion services, and regularly seeing women requesting abortions in an outpatient setting for at least two years.
- Demonstrable skills from personal clinical activity in the abortion care content in the blocks in which you will provide training
- To deliver training in surgical abortion for up to 13+6 weeks gestation, have performed, on average (over the last two years), more than 100 surgical abortions per year
- To deliver training in surgical abortion for gestations of 14 weeks or more, have undertaken surgical procedures at least monthly, on average, in the last two years
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