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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Timothy D Dye, PhD, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue -- Box 324, Rochester, NY 14642, 585.273.2586, tim_dye@urmc.rochester.edu
Distance learning has become commonplace in both formal and informal public health education. Distance-based methods offer the potential to expand the audience for MCH training and to improve access to training options for students. Successful deployment of distance-based programs, however, need to account for best-practices and lessons learned to avoid expensive unintended consequences and incomplete/inefficient training. This session is devoted to examining the experience of recent MCH analytic methods training programs in using on-line, distance-based methods to deliver content, and to discuss the potential expansion of MCH analytic training programs to distance-based platforms.
Through engaging attendees in this session, participants can be expected to:
1. Understand the benefits and limitations of distance-based methods for implementing MCH analytic training programs 2. Critique various modes of delivery of training content via distance-based methods 3. Identify salient features in creating successful learning environments on-line
Learning Objectives: Through engaging attendees in this session, participants can be expected to
Keywords: Technology, Epidemiology
Related Web page: www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/cpm/mach
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: none
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.