ON ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN EXPERT SPECIALTIES IN THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF EXPERTISES


  • A. S. Javadyan
  • P. S. Voskanyan
Keywords: forensic expert, additional professional education, procedure of educational activity organization, educational modules

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the Regulation on Additional Professional Training in Expert Specialties developed by the National Bureau of Expertises of the Republic of Armenia and realized in practice. It’s noted that the unified approaches, set forth in the Regulation, to the retraining of forensic experts ofdifferent specializations within the framework of individual short- and medium-term courses make it possible to provide the required level of professional training with the subsequent certification of the applicant for the right to independently perform a forensic examination. The peculiarities of the current model of additional professional education are described, including testing the basic knowledge of the applicant at the first stage, and in case ofsatisfactory evaluation, after an oral interview, training on the developed individual program consisting of theoretical and practical parts. Upon completion of the training program, the accompanying materials on the applicant’s candidature are submitted to the meeting of the Qualification Commission established by the National Bureau of Expertises, which gives the right to the applicant to carry out independent forensic examination in one or another expert specialty (since 2005 in this manner more than 300 applicants it’s prepared). The paper also emphasizes that the programs of additional professional training are periodically revised, supplemented with introducing new relevant training modules into the programs. In particular, the paper contains links to the introduction of modules such as time management and stress management into the educational process. The paper also highlights the accumulated experience allowing to provide a qualitative level ofexperts continuous training of the National Bureau of Expertises, particularly, on definition of the criteria necessaryfor granting independence to the expert, terms and duration of the probation period of his activity, criteria for evaluating this activity.


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Published
2017-11-29
How to Cite
Javadyan, A. S., & Voskanyan, P. S. (2017). ON ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN EXPERT SPECIALTIES IN THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF EXPERTISES. Theory and Practice of Forensic Science and Criminalistics, 17, 146-152. https://doi.org/10.32353/khrife.2017.17
Section
GENERAL REGULATIONS OF FORENSIC EXAMINATION