The course objective is to provide newly hired Refugee Officers (and other staff throughout USCIS who will be adjudicating Refugee applications) with three weeks of specialized instruction for refugee adjudications. Instructors teach and test trainees using a comprehensive, carefully designed curriculum with a focus on refugee law, interviewing techniques, analysis, and procedures. Specialized training for Refugee Officers is crucial to our efforts to achieve quality. RAD directly oversees and administers all aspects of RDOTC and devotes a number of headquarters staff to training matters. The 10-day IFT period is the final training requirement for all refugee officers who have completed RDOTC. IFT is not graded but students are provided evaluative feedback and are expected to progress throughout the training period to timely complete increasing numbers of cases of greater complexity. The In Field Trainer to student ratio is 1:3 so the trainer is able to provide full-time hands-on guided instruction on a students' adjudication of their assigned refugee cases. This period also serves as a form of evaluation of the RDOTC classroom training as trainers are able to ensure that students are learning during the coursework the foundational skills and knowledge they need to do their work in the field.