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Recorded presentation

Kara Connors, MPH, Bridgeway Health Associates, 275 Pope Road, Concord, MA 01742, 9783695364, kara@bridgewayhealth.net and Henry Bernstein, DO, Dartmouth Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, 03756, Lebanon, NH 03756.

With the increasing demand to expand pediatric primary care interventions, to develop family-centered care, and to identify community-based and culturally responsive partners in care, these ideas ought to be integrated into all Maternal and Child Health training programs. A national collaborative of educators, parents, and residency program directors has developed a self-directed, interactive web-based curriculum to be used in Maternal and Child Health Training programs. The Pediatrics in Practice distance education site (www.pediatricsinpractice.org) features: 1) aTeaching Center, host to a faculty development course to increase MCH educator competency in teaching health promotion concepts (i.e., partnership building, communication, advocacy) through proven teaching strategies (i.e., role play, reflective exercise), and 2) a Learning Center, host to a 6-unit health promotion course, that is designed to increase student competency in health promotion.

This presentation will discuss interactive, task-oriented experiences for both educators and students in exploring this newly created health promotion curriculum featured in the Teaching and Learning Centers.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply a newly created health promotion curriculum for maternal and child heath training.
• Articulate how to effectively facilitate the education and evaluation of this curriculum in their home settings.
• Learn about the development of Pediatrics in Practice distance learning program that is designed to improve teaching and learning in health promotion, including a discussion of preliminary findings related to the formative evaluation of the curriculum.

Keywords: Distance Education, Workforce

Related Web page: www.pediatricsinpractice.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation