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Once a prospective trainee fills out an application for one of our training programs, a TPI associate will review the information and will then schedule either an in person meeting or a teleconference to discuss various training options. Our Premier PANSS Training Program is designed to improve PANSS rating skills and SCI-PANSS interviewing skills through the use of highly interactive didactic and applied training methods. This includes the use of videos, live interviews, and web-based training. Depending on a rater’s level of experience and the types of training methods employed, it may take anywhere between three days to two month to complete the training process from beginning to end.
An integral aspect of our training programs is the personalized expert advice and focused, individualized supplemental training raters will receive pertaining to scoring and rating techniques, as well as to interviewing skills. Our goal is to help raters maintain their skills over time. This requires periodic follow-ups on rater skills using re-certification and supplemental training – not just in the context of a single study, but throughout a rater’s entire career.
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The title “Certified PANSS Rater” is granted to those individuals who have successfully completed TPI’s training and certification program and demonstrated adequate levels of understanding and capability with the PANSS. Certified PANSS Raters are considered qualified to score PANSS items and conduct SCI-PANSS interviews, and are eligible for periodic re-certification. |
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TPI offers periodic recertification to any previously Certified PANSS rater. We consider this to be an integral part of the program, allowing each rater to ensure that their skills and calibration with the scale remain adequate over time. When required, TPI will recommend “recalibration” in the form of additional training. TPI helps to ensure that the raters are up to date with the most recent standards, providing ongoing support while they continue to utilize the PANSS to the best of their ability. |
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Our approach to data management is based on traditional methods developed over many years, standardized to take maximum advantage of new developments in technology to permit scalability, while maintaining transparency. From establishing the study database to the initiation of automated or manual data entry, the primary goal of our data management program is to facilitate analysis while identifying and correcting potential errors that stem from protocol issues or related features of a given study. Analyzing and reporting descriptive statistics on an ongoing basis, documenting and recording all changes in the raw database on a fixed schedule prior to lock, regular and “ultra-redundant” back-ups, archiving and storing the original data in multiple formats and locations both on and offline, and handchecking the final database are some of the many steps our data management team takes to ensure that the results of our work and the efforts of our clients and partners are accurate and meaningful. |
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Currently, we are rapidly expanding our ability to reach a wider range of investigators across the globe. We are in the process of developing an online training tool for the PANSS and for other instruments; we are creating a new generation of training interviews in multiple languages; and we have begun a major expansion of our training programs to cover other scales and instruments that are related to schizophrenia, depression, trauma, anxiety and related disorder.
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