In repeated needs assessments, public health workers had asked for a training course to provide a basic orientation to the history, law, systems, and methods of their field. This was consistent across jurisdictions and professional categories of workers. Later, in a survey inventory of public health training courses from a variety of sources, we had found very few existing resources for these topics. Our goal was to develop a course we would call "Public Health 101" that could be adapted for public health employees in a variety of jurisdictions and job responsibilities. Given the inconsistent training resources available among agencies, we wanted this course to be available through self-instruction, in-person groups, train-the-trainer, and web-based dissemination methods. We therefore used an iterative approach to training-course development. It began with collaboration among content experts to outline learning objectives. Next, live audiences attended, reacted to, and evaluated the course. Subsequently improved versions were then translated from in-person to print in a self-instructional format. Lastly, we plan to convert the course content from live and print-based formats to a web-based format. See www.cphp.pitt.edu/training
Learning Objectives: 1) appreciate the importance of live-audience participation in the initial development of training content; 2) identify improvements in presentation content and methods resulting from evaluations; 3) recognize some of the similarities and differences in presentation of the same content across a variety of dissemination approaches; and 4) identify a relatively simple and inexpensive method of converting course content to the web.
Keywords: Training, Workforce
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