Certificate of Completion
Complete the learning.
Recognises that the relevant programme has been completed. It does not confer professional certification, independent operating authority or a system licence.
Certification, calibration and access
Completion is not certification. Certification is not a licence.
VITALIS™ separates what you attended, what you were assessed against, and what your organisation licensed.
This page sets out the assessment standard, the calibration requirement, what each credential permits, and how system access is granted.
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Three things, kept separate.
Course completion recognises learning. Certification recognises demonstrated competence. System access is licensed separately to the organisation.
Professional Certification
Demonstrate the standard.
Recognises competence demonstrated through the applicable assessment. It is earned by passing the standard, not by attendance alone.
System Access Licence
Apply it within an organisation.
Allows an organisation to use VS1 under an agreed licence. It does not replace practitioner certification or current calibration status.
The credential belongs to the practitioner. The system licence belongs to the organisation. Independent live use requires both.
The assessment
Attendance is not the standard.
T1 and T2 certification is assessed separately through applied cases rather than attendance or recall alone.
Candidates work with unfamiliar case material. The assessment asks whether the evidence is sufficient to enter a level, which level the anchors support, whether the three axes have remained separate and where an observation condition is missing. Candidates must also state the limits of a reading and explain how they would handle disagreement.
The current pass standard is 75%. The assessment is untimed.
current pass standard
Untimedthe assessment is not time-limited
Applied casesunfamiliar case material, not attendance or recall alone
An unsuccessful result means that the standard for independent VITALIS™ operation or interpretation has not yet been demonstrated. It is not a judgement about the person's general ability as a manager.
Boundary
Complete assessment, reassessment and commercial terms will be published before enrolment opens.
Calibration
A written standard is the beginning. Agreement still has to be built.
There is no error-free gold standard for human judgement; calibration matters because it makes variation visible, discussable and correctable.
Any workplace diagnosis can vary with the observer, the evidence available and the conditions in which the work was seen. Written anchors reduce ambiguity, but they do not ensure that two experienced people will interpret the same instance in the same way.
In a controlled study of a mature structured-observation method used in clinical education, 52 faculty raters evaluating scripted encounters produced an inter-rater reliability result of .43 on the nine-point overall scale for a single encounter. More stable readings in that literature depend on repeated observations, multiple perspectives and calibrated raters—not on one form or one encounter.
VS1 therefore treats calibration as part of the operating method. Practitioners work against disputed cases, compare their reasoning with master-coded references and preserve the points of disagreement rather than resolving them invisibly.
What .43 does and does not mean
The .43 belongs to the cited study and method class. It is not a VITALIS™ result, target or pass mark. VS1 has no published inter-rater reliability result yet. AERTHEIX intends to report its own method, sample size and limitations—including if the result is lower than expected.
SOURCE FROM · Cook & Beckman (2009), Advances in Health Sciences Education: a controlled study involving 52 faculty raters evaluating scripted clinical encounters. The .43 relates to the nine-point overall scale for a single encounter.
Calibration does not remove judgement. It gives judgement a standard against which disagreement can be examined.
Credential · Calibration · Status
The credential does not expire. Active status is maintained.
Passing the assessment earns a lifetime professional credential; independent live operation additionally requires current calibration status.
The distinction is deliberate. A credential records the standard demonstrated through assessment. Active status shows that the practitioner's judgement remains aligned with the current operating standard.
Maintaining active status involves an annual declaration of practice, a calibration check on a three-year cycle and a sampling review in which selected practitioners submit one anonymised reading for review.
If a calibration check is not passed or remains outstanding, the professional certificate remains valid. Independent live-operation status pauses until calibration is restored.
T2 certification does not require the course or certification assessment to be repeated. Current T1 active status remains necessary whenever the practitioner operates the live system.
Lifetimeprofessional credential
Annualdeclaration of practice
calibration cycle for active operation
Status 01
Active
Current calibration status. Eligible to operate within assigned organisational permissions.
Status 02
Calibration Due
Credential remains valid. A calibration requirement is outstanding.
Status 03
Inactive
Credential remains valid. Independent live operation is paused until calibration is restored.
The credential records what was earned. Active status records whether independent practice is current.
The tool is licensed separately.
VS1 system access is arranged by an organisation under a separate licence; it is not included with a course and is not conferred by certification.
Attending a programme without taking a system licence is a normal outcome. Some practitioners want to understand the framework or hold the credential before their organisation is ready to deploy the tool.
Within a licensed organisation, an active T1 Certified Practitioner may enter, score and finalise readings within assigned permissions. A T2 Certified Interpreter may interpret complete reports and deeper analyses. The organisation determines access according to role and purpose.
Initial VS1 availability is planned for approximately Q2 2027. Licence, support and commercial terms are under final adjustment and will be released together before access opens.
Programmes planned for H1 2027
Register interest. Decide when the details are ready.
The 2027 Early Access List provides programme dates, formats and complete terms before enrolment or system access opens.
Registration involves no payment and creates no obligation on either side. It records what you would like to understand so that AERTHEIX can provide the relevant programme, enterprise or system-access information when it becomes available.
Pricing
Programme, assessment, calibration and system-access pricing has not yet been published. The complete schedule and terms will be released together rather than in parts.
Questions
Questions about certification.
8 questions about assessment, calibration, credentials and system access.
No. Completing T0, T1 or T2 earns the applicable Certificate of Completion. T1 and T2 professional certification is earned through a separate assessment.
A T1 Certified Practitioner with current active status may enter evidence, score and finalise VS1 readings within an organisation holding the applicable licence and assigning the required permission.
A T2 Certified Interpreter may interpret complete reports and deeper analyses within the applicable organisational permissions. Current T1 active status remains necessary when operating the live system.
The professional credential does not expire. Independent live operation requires current active status, maintained through an annual practice declaration, a three-year calibration cycle and sampling review.
The result means that the standard for independent operation or interpretation has not yet been demonstrated. You retain the applicable Certificate of Completion, and reassessment is available. Complete terms will be published before enrolment opens.
It is not a judgement about the person's general management ability. The participant may continue to contribute observations and prepare draft records within assigned permissions, while certified practitioners remain responsible for official scoring and finalisation.
No. An organisation may develop internal T2 capability or request interpretation from AERTHEIX or an authorised interpreter.
No. VS1 access is licensed separately to the participating organisation. Certification establishes practitioner competence; the licence establishes where the system may be used.
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A judgement whose evidence can be examined.
Certification exists so that a VS1 reading can be reviewed by someone other than the person who made it.
Certification does not make judgement certain. It establishes the evidence, calibration and practice standard by which that judgement can be examined.