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Implementing the Minnesota Conference Guidelines in doctoral, internship, fellowship, and continuing education
Stephen Correia1, Anthony Y Stringer2, Peter Dodzik3
1Institute of Gerontology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Objective:
To provide guidance for implementation of the Minnesota Conference Guidelines (MNC Guidelines) within doctoral, internship, post-doctoral fellowship, and continuing education programs. The development and maintenance of competencies in clinical neuropsychology is the goal of combined training at these four levels. In this paper, implementation guidance uses terminology consistent with the current Clinical Neuropsychology Taxonomy and current competency development concepts in the specialty.
Method:
Delegates to the Minnesota 2022 Update Conference on Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology (MNC) were invited to participate in the drafting of this document. The MNC Steering Committee organized this process. Delegates were formed into four drafting teams (Doctoral, Internship, Fellowship, and Continuing Education), each with a Team Lead. Teams provided initial drafts that identified training opportunities at each level and provided example training activities to address the 13 MNC Guidelines competencies. The manuscript's lead authors (SC, AYS, RB) then edited and integrated these drafts and worked iteratively with Team Leads to produce the current document.
Results:
The paper provides a conceptual framework for the MNC Guidelines, addresses supervision across training levels, discusses training activities that can be implemented to address the MNC Guidelines competencies, and discusses potential challenges to that implementation. The learning activities contained in these guidelines draw heavily upon existing training methods that are already in wide use across the specialty of clinical neuropsychology.
Conclusion:
These Implementation Guidelines are intended to provide training programs and individuals with non-prescriptive guidance on training activities designed to develop and maintain competency across all 13 of the MNC competencies.
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