Deliverable 4.2: Report on the Piloting of the Training Curricula

In response to the widespread need for specialised training in the medical sector, the EU-funded project “VIPROM – Victim Protection in Medicine” aims to harness the practical knowledge of medical staff in order to improve multi-professional support of victims of domestic violence (DV). The VIPROM project is developing European and national curricula on domestic violence for various medical stakeholders (physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists) and students (medical students and dental students) in close cooperation with medical faculties, hospitals, research organisations, medical educators and victim support organisations in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Sweden. This deliverable D4.2 Report on Piloting of the Curricula describes the preparatory phase of trainees’ recruitment strategy, the implementation of the training courses held in every partner country, the barriers and challenges faced during recruitment and implementation, as well as general recommendations on how to implement DV trainings in the medical sector successfully. Moreover, the didactic methodology used to facilitate comparable training courses in different countries as a blueprint is presented. The national implementation of the courses in the five VIPROM countries (Austria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Sweden), was highly successful and the project was able to train the VIPROM curriculum to 492 trainees, using VIPROM materials and the European training platform on domestic violence. VIPROM exceeded the number of trainees to be trained (n= 425) by 67 trainees (approx. 11.5% more). The present deliverable 4.2, together with deliverables D3.2 and D4.1, the training handbooks and the European training platform, serves as a didactic tool box to be used by all trainers to implement the VIPROM curricula in the most efficient way, ensuring the highest levels of competence and sustainability.