Team Training Methodology
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A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
IS NOT A CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCE.
KORT TRAINS TO COMPETENCE, NOT TO A SCHEDULE.
Module 15 builds the system for developing people who operate within the KORT Clinic Standard. Borrowing from competency-based medical education, it establishes the five-domain framework, milestone progression, assessment rubrics, and supervised practice architecture that transform knowledge into verified clinical capability.
MODULE OVERVIEW
The standard SMP training course runs two to four days. The trainee learns basic technique, observes demonstrations, performs supervised practice on synthetic skin and one or two models, and receives a certificate. There is no competency verification beyond subjective assessment. No standardised milestones. No structured progression to independent practice.
This is not a criticism of trainers—it is a description of an industry lacking the training infrastructure that exists in every field where practitioners perform procedures on human skin. Surgeons have residencies. Nurses have clinical placements. Even tattoo artists serve apprenticeships.
The KORT approach borrows from competency-based medical education: structured development with defined milestones, direct observation, formative feedback, and gate-controlled progression. The goal is to transform someone with theoretical knowledge into a practitioner who can be trusted to work independently on a human being.
A certificate of attendance is not a certificate of competence. Competence is demonstrated through observed performance against defined criteria over time. KORT trains to competence, not to a schedule.
The SMP Training Gap
The standard SMP training course runs two to four days. The trainee learns technique, observes demonstrations, performs supervised practice on synthetic skin and one or two models, and receives a certificate. They enter the market as an SMP practitioner.
There is no competency verification beyond subjective assessment. No standardised milestones. No structured progression to independence. No ongoing framework. The certificate attests to attendance, not competence.
The result: wide variance in practitioner quality, no way for clients to verify competence, and no framework for clinics to train team members to a measurable standard.
A certificate of attendance is not a certificate of competence. Competence is demonstrated through observed performance against defined criteria over time—not through completing a training course. KORT trains to competence, not to a schedule.
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