This nine (9) week online course (plus optional 10th week for verbatim) is designed to help a chaplain:

* Integrate and synthesize one's professional clinical pastoral education by focusing on the 31 national competencies and the training they have received.

* Be exceptionally familiar with all 31 national competencies needed for certification. Extensive focused readings are part of the course to help in the learning and integration/synthesizing process.

* Begin organizing and writing one's certification materials. Writing is done at a competency by competency level.