260874 Maximizing the impact of public health training

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

Kathleen Amos, MLIS , Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation, Washington, DC
A competent workforce is critical to the provision of public health services, and ongoing engagement in training opportunities throughout one's career can help build the competence to succeed. Despite its importance, resources for professional development, such as time and money, are often in short supply. A number of strategies hold potential for improving the effectiveness of public health training and helping to maximize the return on investment of personal and organizational resources and the potential benefits derived by both the public health professional engaging in the training and the organization. During this session, strategies related to assessment, motivation, design, delivery, and evaluation of training will be shared, along with methods for applying the strategies described. The strategies and methods highlighted were developed by experts in training and evaluation through a yearlong collaboration and are based on a review of scholarly and grey literature and expert opinion. This process produced a checklist-type tool to assist public health educators and organizations with implementing the proposed enhancements into their training efforts. Freely available through the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, the tool details strategies and methods for improving and measuring the impact of training and provides supporting reference materials and practical tools and examples.

Learning Areas:
Other professions or practice related to public health
Program planning
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related education
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify three strategies for improving the effectiveness of training or measuring the impact of training. 2. Explain how to access strategies, methods, and supporting resources to assist with improving and measuring the impact of training.

Keywords: Workforce, Training

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been working with the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, which developed the tool for improving and measuring the impact of training described, for the past two years and coordinated the development of this tool.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.