Frequently Asked Questions

Through the Clinical Encounters platform, Vaping.ClinicalEncounters.com provides a framework to support clinically-relevant learning centered around vaping assessment and treatment based on challenging scenarios, decision-making, structured feedback, and patient-focused complementary resources.

Vaping and e-cigarette use, especially among today’s youth, threaten to bring back the scourge of addiction to nicotine and introduce a novel indiscreet means to use cannabis. From 2017 to 2018, rates of e-cigarette use by high school students almost doubled to 1 in 5, and in middle school students, the rate increased to 1 in 20. Over 1 in 5 high school seniors reported past-year use of a vaping device in 2018 and almost 1 in 7 vape cannabis. Over 1/3 of young adults have used e-cigarettes, placing them at risk for a lifetime of addiction to nicotine. Yet health care providers lack the skills, training, and resources to reverse these trends.

Through our training, the health professional will build key clinical skills related to vaping including the deployment of motivational interviewing and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) skills. A patient-centered approach builds a strong collaborative relationship by emphasizing dialogue, patient relevance, tailoring an intervention to the patient’s needs, and the proper use of integrated resources and guides for parents, adolescents and young adults.

• Clinicians who need more information and training on vaping
• Primary Care Physicians
• Resident Physicians who work in primary care

Clinical Tools will not share your personal information with any third parties. However, if taking one of our modules is part of your required coursework, your measurement data (e.g.pre/post tests) will be reported to your professor upon their request.

The website is being developed by Clinical Tools, Inc. This website is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA grant No. R43DA050401).

On our About Us page, there is a brief overview of CTI, as well as a link to our corporate site.

On the Homepage, select the activity that applies to you. If there is a cost associated with the activity, you can choose to either “Buy for Individual” or you can look at the Group Options available.

If you start the activity and are not satisfied for any reason, we will refund your training fee within 60 days of the original payment. Refunds will be in the original form of payment. After 60 days we are unable to offer a refund. If you complete the activity, we will not issue a refund. Email billing@clinicaltools.com with requests or questions.

Credits vary by module. Users will receive a set amount of CME credit hours upon completing the activity.

On your account page you can see all earned certificates in the left sidebar. A copy of any earned certificates was also emailed to you when you completed each activity.

Contact us  if you would like help.

Clinical Tools includes multiple measures in our modules to assess changes in knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and intended behavior. We track this data for all users to assess the impact of our online curriculum.

If you’ve forgotten your password, you can request to have it changed. Enter in the email for your account and you will receive a link to change your password.

Visit our About Groups  page to learn more about how you can create a group for organization training (multiple users). Contact us if you have any additional questions.

As a group leader, you can add additional group leaders, add and remove users, and view user progress reports on the Group Management page. If you think you should be a group leader and don’t have access to that page, contact us and we will make sure you have the correct permissions.

You will access your group training depending on how your group leader chose to add people to the group. Choose from the two scenarios as they apply to you:

1. I received a link to sign up:
   If you were sent a sign-up link, you will need to register your account via that link to be correctly added to your group. Once you are registered, your group activities can be found on your Account page. You will be enrolled in all activities your group leader has assigned to your group.
2. I received an email with a username and password:
   If you received an automatic “You’ve been added to the group” email, simply click on the link provided in the email to log in and access your group activity(s). *If you did not receive the email, check your spam folder or reset your password using the email your group leader used.

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Additional activities, outside of your group training, may be accessible on the site’s homepage. If you already created an account, but don’t have access to the activities you think you should, please contact us and we will add you to the correct group.

For all group activities, your group leader has access to your activity progress, the date you completed training, and how you did on the pre/post-assessments.

Your group leader may require you to complete your training by a certain deadline. However, the learning system allows you to start and stop training at any time in order to complete on your schedule.