OHSU’s New GTA & MUTA Program

Last year, a contact was made by CPR’s managing director, Richard Claflin, with Tru Chatelain at OHSU, Oregon Health and Science University in Portland Oregan. OHSU was interested in moving their GTA/MUTA program to an independent instruction model, the gold standard of GTA/MUTA methodology. It took many months but the training began with 7 exceptional […]

CPR and Accepted Abstracts for ASPE

Clinical Practice Resources just got word that all 3 submitted abstracts for the 2018 Association for Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) conference were accepted.  In the past, Isle Polonko, director at CPR, has been the leader in GTA content at the conference presenting as many as 11 presentations. This year, Richard Claflin, Managing Director at CPR, […]

CPR Training for New GTAs 2018 Spring and Fall Sessions

Five female learners posing with Gynecologic Teaching Associate

Have you ever thought about becoming a Gynecologic Teaching Associate? CPR is training GTAs for upcoming 2018 sessions! Our internationally recognized program has been hailed as the gold standard for invasive exam clinical skills instruction and patient educator programming.  We have instructed in numerous locations across this country and in locations across the globe, Milan, […]

The How To’s of Reducing Student Anxiety and Creating Safe Space For Students

by Clinical Practice Resources Managing Director, Richard Claflin One of the things we all recognize as GTA/MUTA instructors is that we teach an uncomfortable subject that produces a lot of anxiety for learners who are new to performing gynecological, genital or prostate exams.  There’s no way around it: these examinations are filled with a lot […]