Training

Training Opportunities for Clinicians

The Reach Out and Read team regularly creates, evaluates, and improves our training to best meet the needs of our community. All training has been developed and tested by groups of Reach Out and Read clinicians, including the Curriculum Development Working Group.

Two core trainings are hosted on myROR
Core Training: ROR 101 provides information about the Reach Out and Read model and gives guidance on implementing the model at each well-child visit beginning at birth. This training is required for all clinicians who will deliver the Reach Out and Read model in their practice.

Building Connections Begins at Birth: This is a supplementary training for clinicians who took the Core Training more than four years ago. It offers up-to-date guidance on how to implement the Reach Out and Read model. This training is currently only available to clinicians whose Affiliate is actively working to scale Building Connections Begins at Birth across its geography.

Supplementary Training
The courses highlighted below are optional for Reach Out and Read clinicians who have already completed Core Training. These courses are available on Pathwright, a Reach Out and Read learning platform that can be accessed through the Training tab on myROR.


Developmental Disabilities

The Understanding Developmental Disabilities course teaches clinicians how to adapt the Reach Out and Read model to better suit children with developmental delays and disabilities. It includes a series of eight videos of clinicians incorporating Reach Out and Read into primary care visits with children who face a variety of developmental issues, including ADHD, speech and language delay, Autism Spectrum Disorder, visual impairment, hearing loss, and motor delay.

This training is accredited with both CME and MOC-2 points. Questions? Please email info@reachoutandread.org.


Reach Out and Read Counts

In Reach Out and Read Counts, primary care clinicians provide parents with simple suggestions to help their child develop an understanding of the building blocks of math. While reading together, parents can point and count, discuss the sizes of pictures on a page, and predict what happens next in the story.

The Reach Out and Read Counts course begins with an outline of the research behind the basic elements of early math development and its impact on young children. It also includes a series of videos of clinicians incorporating Reach Out and Read Counts into primary care visits with children through age 5.

This training is accredited with both CME and MOC-2 points. Questions? Please email info@reachoutandread.org.


Reach Out and Read Residency Training

The Reach Out and Read Residency Training is a series of four short videos and follow-up discussion sheets. These modules are designed to facilitate discussion around best practices for Reach Out and Read and include discussion and questions within the videos themselves.

This training is not a replacement for the required Core Training but serves as an additional tool to help residency programs discuss how best to understand and integrate Reach Out and Read.

This course was created to support residency programs in training residents in delivery of the Reach Out and Read model, including primary care clinicians, family medicine clinicians, nurse practitioners, nursing and medical students, and other pediatric providers. Videos can be viewed together as a series or separately as one-off courses within orientations, continuity clinics, noon conferences or academic enrichment days. They could also be included in curricular rotations or tracks including advocacy, behavior and development, primary care, mental health, and health equity.

This training is located on YouTube and can be found here .Questions? please emailinfo@reachoutandread.org.


MOC-4 Projects

Reach Out and Read is growing its platform of Maintenance of Certification-4 (MOC-4) / Quality Improvement (QI) projects. QI projects are long-term, with routine data collection. These projects are available on a rotating basis. Please look out for announcements about QI opportunities in the Medical Leadership newsletter.