WHO WE ARE

Richard Claflin is one of the country’s leading experts in the field of anxiety-free patient sensitivity training for medical practitioners. Having spent over a decade pioneering urogenital instruction for students at many of the nation’s best medical schools, he authored the only available curriculum on how to successfully train Male Urogenital Teaching Associates (MUTAs) – a training process that also standardizes the instruction for learners. For the past several years, he has overseen more than 30 instructors working at dozens of teaching institutions throughout the northeast, including some of the best medical schools in the world. He has also provided training and consultation throughout the country to schools looking to establish their own GTA/MUTA programs.  

He is an active member of the GTA/MUTA special interest group of the Association for Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE). In addition to his work with medical learners, he is also the first person to design and implement a curriculum that uses male trainers in the certification and training of Sexual Assault Forensic Nurses for evidence collection after an assault. Richard is regularly asked to give presentations regarding his GTA/MUTA work at conferences around the country, including ASPE, IAFN and the ASPiH conference in England. Because of his focus on communication skills during highly stigmatized examinations, as a related topic he also regularly gives presentations to faculty and entire student classes about appropriate ways for medical practitioners to interact with LGBTQ and Trans patients. 

A graduate of Harvard, with a concentration in English and American Literature and Languages, much of his undergraduate studies focused on theater and comparative religion…giving him a keen understanding of how to develop empathy and how faith and religion play a key role in our ability to communicate with people across a variety of cultural perspectives, prejudices and attitudes. This background relates directly to his work as a medical trainer, where much of the job focuses on teaching learners to overcome stigma and develop empathy with patients to create an anxiety-free clinical examination experience.

Marc Daniel Claflin is the Lead Male Trainer for Claflin Consulting. As an accomplished MUTA himself with over 10 years as an instructor, he has taught in dozens of  teaching institutions throughout the country working with medical  students as well as training prospective new MUTAs. He has given multiple presentations about patient-centered care at conferences and universities.  As lead male trainer, he spearheads training prospective MUTAs and guides them through the process of becoming fully trained MUTAs who are ready to work with learners.

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In his work with GTAs/MUTAs and Standardized Patients, Marc also participated in a research grant project  from Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to identify educational objectives for medical clinics throughout  New Jersey.