For the MedTech Training Community

Preparing for Your Next Speaking Engagement

In this course, we’ll explore ways to help you become a standout faculty presenter. We’ll explore verbal and non-verbal communication skills, best practices, and ways to prepare your workspace for virtual presentations.

TrainSmart Instructional Design Fundamentals: ADDIE for Medical Device Educators

Creating quality training programs requires a careful analysis of the educational needs, a well-designed strategy, and the development of materials to meet your objectives, all before it can be implemented. After implementation, it is important to evaluate your training program to ensure it accomplishes what you set out to do.

In this OnDemand certificate program, you will receive an introduction to the ADDIE Model of Instructional Design and learn real-world strategies for implementing this model into your training programs.

Graphic Design for Medical Device Educators

In this course, you’ll be introduced to Design Principles, learn how to use slide masters and layouts to make your life easier, and acquire simple strategies for using images and icons to make your message pop. The expectation is not to turn you into graphic designers, but rather to give you the tools to make PowerPoint work for you when designing slides to support your curriculum.

Developing a Field Training Playbook

Creating a playbook for your field trainers provides clear expectations and ensures consistent training across the organization. In this self-paced course, you’ll be guided through the process of creating a playbook for your field trainers which communicates the expectations for the new hire and for the field trainer in their role of mentoring.

Take It Virtual!

Moving classroom content to the virtual space
Are you tasked with moving an existing in-person training to a virtual training? Could you use some support to create an engaging and effective virtual training experience for your learners? The Take It Virtual! Course will provide best practices and a guide for moving your training to the digital space. This course consists of four asynchronous eLearning modules to help you acquire the skills to apply these principles to your own training.

Needs Assessment and Training Strategy Development

In this course, you will explore the needs assessment process, which helps trainers understand the true training needs before beginning to design curriculum. Over the duration of this asynchronous eLearning course, you will perform a thorough needs assessment at your organization and develop a systemized training strategy to meet your organization’s true training needs.

Adult Learning Certificate

In this course, you will explore how best to design training for adult learners in order to increase both participant engagement and the retention of information. First, you’ll explore Malcom Knowles’s Principles of Andragogy and learn which activities you can implement to create training designed for adult learners. You will then continue to learn best practices for increasing retention in adult learners by exploring the brain’s processing channels and strategies and best practices for transferring knowledge to long-term memory. At the end of this course, you will implement activities within your training to meet the needs of adult learners based on the science and theory of adult brain science.

Adult Learning Toolkit

How do you create training that meets the needs of adult learners? This collection of handouts and templates will give you practical ways to create training for adult learners in the med device space.

Instructional Design Toolkit

Are you ready to start creating training programs that are engaging and effective? These handouts and templates will provide you with the questions and answers you need to analyze your training need, design, develop, and implement a great curriculum, and evaluate its effectiveness.

Physician Training Toolkit

Are you developing physician training for your med device company? Our best practices and templates will guide you through creating engaging and effective physician training.

Sales Training Toolkit

Creating training for sales reps at your organization? Use these handouts and templates to apply our best practices at your organization!

Strategy Toolkit

Ready to begin your needs assessment? Our Strategy Toolkit will give your resources for fielding training requests, interviewing key stakeholders, gathering senior leader buy-in, and calculating ROI.

Virtual Training Toolkit

Want to create engaging and effective virtual training? Our collection of handouts and templates will guide you in using virtual meeting tools to create interactive training that engages your attendees in the learning process.