Responding to the widespread need for sustainable medical sector training, the EU funded project VIPROM – Victim Protection in Medicine – Exploiting practical knowledge of medical staff to enhance the multi-professional contact with victims of domestic violence, will develop curricula on domestic violence tailored to the medical profession groups such as physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, other healthcare professionals, and medical students in close cooperation with medical faculties, hospitals, research organisations, medical educators and victim protection organisations in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Sweden. The goal is to provide sustainable, organisationally embedded, and institutionally recognised training for professionals from different medical fields. The curricula are based on the training materials, training tools and the information being available on the European Training Platform on Domestic Violence (https://training.improdova.eu/en/). This platform is modular and tailored to the needs of trainers who will teach domestic violence (DV) to our various stakeholder groups. The platform serves not as a standalone self-study tool for learners, but rather as a resource for trainers and to complement learner´s training or evaluate their knowledge following training sessions. Trainers have the flexibility to select from a diverse range of materials within each module, with certain content being mandatory. The eight modules from the previous version of the training platform, originally developed as part of the IMPRODOVA project, have undergone thorough reviews by all VIPROM partners. Each module was carefully evaluated using specific templates. Based on this revision, the health sector was amended, enriched by new interactive training tools and stakeholder specificity by including new spotlights was introduced. The platform was adapted to the national context and the English platform was translated into 4 languages (German, Greek, Italian, Swedish); the German platform was adapted to the Austrian context. This deliverable explains the underlying processes, the structural changes needed to implement those amendments to have the training platform available in 5 different languages (English, German, Greek, Italian, Swedish) and adapted to the Austrian context. It also introduces the new innovative teaching materials, as well as the challenges which had to be solved on the way.
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