3.4 Resource and infrastructure requirements

The colleges identified six main resource and infrastructure elements that are necessary to provide effective training, adequate exposure and experience for specialist trainees.

The six elements are:

• appropriate supervision, teaching and feedback, plus training for less experienced supervisors
• protected time for supervisors and trainees
• professional support
• equitable access to educational resources
• recognition by institutions and managers of the value of training to service provision and quality
• provision of setting-specific physical infrastructure requirements where needed.

Standards for accreditation of private settings need to be explicit and should continue to be met in current training sites, as well as new ones. It is important that the expanded training settings be judged against established and accepted standards to ensure they provide adequate training opportunities.