Training

Virtual Web-based Asynchronous Training Modules (self-paced)

Please email training@harmresearch.org if you need to purchase training access.

Adult MINI

Adult Standard MINI 7.0.2 Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan
Adult Standard MINI 7.0.2 Interview Training, Case 1 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult Standard MINI 7.0.2 Interview Training, Case 2 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult Suicidality Module of the MINI 7.0.2 Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan

Adult MINI for Suicidality Disorders Studies 7.0.2 Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult MINI for Suicidality Disorders Studies 7.0.2 Interview Training, Case 1 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens

Pediatric MINI Kid

Pediatric Standard MINI Kid 7.0.2 Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan
Pediatric Standard MINI Kid 7.0.2 Interview Training, Case 1 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Pediatric Suicidality Module of the MINI Kid 7.0.2 Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan

Adult S-STS

Adult Standard S-STS Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan
Adult Standard S-STS Interview Training, Case 1 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult Standard S-STS Interview Training, Case 2 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult Standard S-STS Interview Training, Case 3 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult Standard S-STS Interview Training, Case 4 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens

Adult S-STS CMCM Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult S-STS CMCM Interview Training, Case 1 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult S-STS CMCM Interview Training, Case 2 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult S-STS CMCM Interview Training, Case 3 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens
Adult S-STS CMCM Interview Training, Case 4 – Developed by Dr. Sheehan and Jennifer M. Giddens

Pediatric S-STS

Pediatric Standard S-STS Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan

SDS

Adult Standard SDS Training – Developed by Dr. Sheehan

Additional training modules coming soon.

 

The training materials were personally created by the author and copyright holder of the scale or structured interview.  The training courses include a video presentation and a quiz.  After both of these are completed in full, a certificate of completion of training is generated.  User certification is left up to the local site or sponsor and is usually a credentialing issue. Dr. Sheehan’s young grandchildren could watch the videos and complete the quiz to obtain the certificate of completion.  However, he would not want any of them to be raters using the MINI because they do not have the necessary clinical experience.  Usually, completion of training is the last step in the credentialing process, after raters have met other benchmarks determined upon by the site or sponsor.

Subtitles

Training video subtitles are available in multiple languages on request. Contact training@harmresearch.org for more information.

Method to Enroll Trainees

Because of GDPR and other privacy laws, we require trainees to enroll themself in the training using a coupon code.  We allow each trainee to have access to the training for up to 30 days.  (For example, if a trainee enrolled in the training on October 25th, 2022, their training access  expired on November 25th, 2022.  If another trainee enrolled on October 28th, 2022 that trainee’s access expired on November 28th, 2022.)  By allowing a trainee to enroll in the training and complete the training on their own time they usually immediately complete the training when they access the training.  We will send a guide that walks trainees through the entire process of enrolling in and completing the training.  You should provide this guide to the trainees.

We will restrict the coupon code to only work for the specific training course(s) of your choice.  The one downside is that we cannot oversee that those using the coupon code are people you want to have trained.  If someone shared the code with a friend, that training would count against the total number of trainings you purchased.

We recommend providing training for a trainee shortly before their site will begin recruitment or direct use of the scale / structured interview.  We do not recommend training users of the scales / structured interviews too far in advance of them using the scales / structured interview, unless they are already experienced users of the scale / structured interview.

Cost for Training

The cost for training is currently $100 USD per trainee per training for each timepoint of training.  There are additional setup fees if any of the following apply:

  • for large groups of 20 or more coupon code uses
  • if training is being used in a clinical research study or as part of a drug development program
  • if data from the study are being submitted to a regulatory agency
  • if training must be duplicated for any reason (e.g., for each recertification time point or for non-English-language training).

(For reference, please see the United States Food and Drug Administration’s explanation of a clinical research study in the following link.  https://www.fda.gov/patients/clinical-trials-what-patients-need-know/what-are-different-types-clinical-research) These additional fees allow set-up that makes it easier if there is an audit. The current set-up fee is $1,000 USD per training for each round of training, for each study.

There may be additional charges if you require us to upload invoices to any payment system.

Please note that training access may be paused if payment for licensing is past due.

Training Subtitles / Quiz & Guide Translation

We can provide subtitles for the training video(s) in different languages.  We can also have the quiz(es) and the guide(s) for enrolling in training translated.  If you want the quiz in any languages other than English, we will need to set-up a copy of the training in this specific language.  The set-up fee will apply for each language that you want the training set-up in.

To Set-up Training

Please provide Jennifer M. Giddens at training@harmresearch.org with:

  1. a copy of the license agreement for use of the paper version of the scale or structured interview that you request training on that is signed by Dr. Sheehan for the study that you are requesting training for
  2. the name of the training course(s) you need
  3. the number of each training course that you need
  4. the date you wish the training to start.   Please note that it may take a week (or longer) for us to prepare training after we reconcile receipt of payment in full.
  5. a “yes” or “no” response to the following question: Is this training being used as a part of a clinical research study or as part of a drug development program or are data from the study being submitted to a regulatory agency?  For reference, please see the United States Food and Drug Administration’s explanation of a clinical research study in the following link.  https://www.fda.gov/patients/clinical-trials-what-patients-need-know/what-are-different-types-clinical-research
  6. a response to the following questions:  Will your trainees need recertification during this study?  If so, what time-points will they need recertification?  How many coupon code uses do you wish to purchase for each time point of recertification?  For most CNS studies, we recommend recertification every 1 year.
  7. the name and address and email address of the individual and / or company the invoice should be addressed to. Please note that we cannot make out an invoice to one company at the request of a separate company. For example, we cannot make out an invoice to the study sponsor at the request of the CRO. Please have the company that needs to be listed on the invoice contact us for the invoice.
  8. a “yes” or “no” response to the following question: have you licensed enough uses of the scale or structured interview to cover the number of uses for the training?  In other words did you include the correct number of scale or structured interview uses for training in Appendix 1 of the license agreement.
  9. the number of uses of the scale or structured interview that have been used in this study to date
  10. if you are using a customized scale or structured interview, please provide us with the details of the customization (i. e. the additional modules added to the standard scale or standard structured interview to make your customized version)
  11. if you are requesting more than 1 training course, will all trainees complete all training courses, at all timepoints of training that you request?  If the answer to this is “yes” we will bundle the training together so that trainees only need to enroll 1 time for all of the training courses for a timepoint of training access.  If you later decide you need some trainees to only access some of these training courses, additional fees will apply to adjust the training set-up.
  12. the language(s) that you want video subtitles for
  13. the language(s) that you want the quiz and guide translated into

Once we have this information we can create an invoice for you in PayPal.   After the invoice is paid and we are able to reconcile receipt of payment in full, we will set up the training, we will activate the coupon code, and we will send you the guide to provide the trainees.  Individual trainees will complete an order for the training using the pre-paid coupon code following the steps outlined in the guide.  When their order is processed, emails will be automatically sent out to each trainee from “noreply@notify.thinkific.com” with a link to access the training.  Each trainee will have access to the training for 30-days from the date they complete their order.  Any trainee who does not complete the training in this time frame or who needs additional access to the training will need to pay again to access the training after this 30-day time frame.

In addition, for certain sites or studies, Dr. Sheehan can do an additional live Zoom question and answer session to address issues encountered after the raters at the site or in the study have done a dozen or so with real patients.  These Q & A sessions are more useful and rewarding if raters already have some direct experience using the instrument several times and if they have questions they want addressed, to improve their confidence and skill in using the instrument.  Dr. Sheehan has a paid Zoom account for this purpose and can host such Zoom meetings.

If you are interested in having us provide you with certificates of completion of training for your study or provide you with a weekly spreadsheet showing those who are enrolled in training from using your coupon code and the percentage of completion of their training, please contact Jennifer M. Giddens at training@harmresearch.org for an estimate on the costs of these additional services.

Please contact Dr Sheehan at davidvsheehan@gmail.com or on his cell phone if he can be of any additional assistance.

Please contact Jennifer M. Giddens at training@harmresearch.org if you have any questions on setting up training access.