Deliverable 4.1 Report on Train-the-Trainers courses

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 to improve multi-professional contact with victims of domestic violence. The VIPROM project is developing 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. To be able to do so in a sustainable way, VIPROM developed and implemented a Train-the-Trainer (TtT) programme. This deliverable D4.1 Report on Train-the-Trainers courses as part of WP4 describes the preparatory phase prior to the implementation of the TtT trainer courses and the used recruitment strategy for trainers. This report describes the European TtT workshop held in Münster from 3 to 4 September 2024 in detail, highlighting the topics covered and explaining the didactic methodology used to facilitate comparable training courses in other countries as a blueprint. National TtT courses used the agenda and methods as in Münster to ensure that they are of high quality, use state-of-the-art training concepts, and take into account the challenges faced by stakeholders in the clinical context. The national implementation of the courses in the five VIPROM countries (Germany, Austria, Greece, Italy, Sweden), was highly successful and the project was able to train the VIPROM curriculum to 32 new trainers using VIPROM materials and the TtT handbooks. VIPROM exceeded the number of trainers to be trained (n= 24) by 30% The present Deliverable 4.1, together with deliverable D3.2, the TtT training handbooks and the European training platform serve as a didactic tool box to be used by all trainers to pilot the VIPROM curricula in the most efficient way, ensuring the highest levels of competence and sustainability.