[Analysis of trainers’ « effective practice » in patient therapeutic education]

Introduction : development of Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) incites healthcare professionals to introduce in their pratices an educational dimension. Objective : existing few works on the « effective » practices of the TPE trainers, this exploratory research aims at giving a perspective on what cancharacterize their pratices in teaching situation. Method : by taking support on the workson teaching pratices observation in Educational sciences, several sessions of TPE were observed, recorded and analysed by focusing on the forms and the contents of the verbal interactions near the trainers. Results : the results underline variations intra and interpersonal on guidance model of the trainers. Discussion : these results are to be put in links to the design of the sessions, professionals training and public receipted. Conclusion : effective practices observation, complemented withdeclared practices, is a tool of analysis susceptible to inform educationnal posture of the trainer in aim of knowledge and professionalization.