- Attend fall DCE training annually. Excused absences must be arranged ahead of time by writing to the alpine chairs and coach
- If you miss Fall training due to an excused absence you are required to attend the mid-season training that year (clinician can request a waiver).
- Otherwise, mid-season training is strongly encouraged.
- Maintain employment at a ski school (does not need to be a member school).
- Lead a NRM clinic once every two years. This clinic may be either assigned or may be a clinic that you create.
- Create your own clinic topic at least once every three years. Creating your own topic means that you come up with a topic (which does not have to be completely original, but it must be something other that the generic 'skier improvement'), create a title for your clinic and write a newsletter description. Submit the title and description to the clinician coach and the alpine chairs for approval. Once approval is given, you will work with the chairs to find a location and a date for the clinic. It is also expected that you will do some marketing to help get the clinic to fill. If you make a thorough effort to promote your clinic and it still does not fill, you will still receive credit for creating a clinic.
- You will get to review the written evaluation forms for clinics that you give. The chairs and coach will also review your evaluation forms.
- You will be evaluated annually from your performance at DCE training. Your evaluation will be in writing.
- You will receive a thorough evaluation every three years. Evaluation will be performed by the clinician's coach and will be based on your skiing, teaching and movement analysis as demonstrated at DCE training. Your evaluation will also include feedback from events that you have taught and your overall participation and contributions to the DCE team. Your evaluation will be in writing. This evaluation will determine if you maintain your active clinician status.
- If you are headed in the direction of receiving an unsatisfactory evaluation, the clinician's coach will alert you to this well in advance of your review date so you have time to make improvements. (For example, you should get a warning the season prior to your review, with specific feedback as to how to improve.)
- Clinicians who demonstrate a commitment to the DCE team will get preferential assignments. For example, a clinician who always attends training, actively works to improve their skiing and the product they deliver, attends alpine committee meetings, helps shape our educational curriculum, writes newsletter articles, and so on will be rewarded by getting more frequent assignments than a clinician who only marginally participates in the DCE program. In other words, you get out of the program what you put into it.
- Understand the overall philosophy of what we are looking for from our clinicians, and they should embody those same qualities (i.e. commitment to the program, commitment to education, striving to help us all improve).
- Have Clinicians poll their ski schools and find out what the wants and needs are in relation to training and development. Use these polls to develop clinic topics and structure.
- Help lay out a road map of education in NRM over the next 5 years. What topics do members want? Can your clinicians meet that demand? What are other divisions doing? How can we use innovative teaching methods?
- Help to create a demand for our educational products. Create a buzz, write newsletter articles, create clinic topics and formats that are different from the same old stuff.
- Write newsletter articles for every newsletter (assign to clinicians or do yourself)
- Attend all alpine committee meetings
- Organize the clinician training program and run some parts of it.
- Touch base with the clinician team over email a few times during the season
- Coordinate a clinician meeting during fall DCE training
- Perform the evaluations of the clinicians. This includes an annual evaluation (from performance at DCE training), on snow feedback, and the 3-year written evaluations.
- In short, the clinician's coach is basically in charge of NRM alpine education.
