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Educating Public Health Professionals for the Future: A Competency-based Approach to Public Health Practica
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM
Patti Truant, MPH
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Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Thomas A. Burke, PhD, MPH
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Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Beth Resnick, MPH
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Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Jennifer Le, MPH
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Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Juleen Lam, PhD, MHS, MS
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Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accredits graduate schools of public health. One critical CEPH accreditation requirement is that all graduate professional public health degree students demonstrate application of basic public health concepts through a practice experience. A major challenge for and responsibility of schools of public health is ensuring that this practice experience contributes to the development of knowledge, skills and abilities that graduates will need upon entering the workforce. A competency-based approach was utilized for planning and selecting practicum experiences to maximize the ability of said experiences to contribute to the development of skills graduates need to successfully deliver essential public health services. In 2013, incoming Master of Public Health (MPH) students at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health were enrolled in Tools of Public Health Practice and Decision Making, a course designed to introduce students to the core functions and essential services of public health, as well as the skills necessary for their delivery. Enrolled students completed a self-assessment based on the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice’s Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. Students used the results of these baseline self-assessments to select or customize a practicum experience aligned with their strengths and weaknesses, goals, and anticipated or desired professional role(s) after graduation. This session will present a case study of one school’s competency-based approach to fulfilling the CEPH practicum requirement and summarize the self-perceived strengths and weakness of students upon entrance into and completion of an MPH program.
Learning Areas:
Public health or related education
Learning Objectives:
Define the eight domains of the Core Competencies for public health professionals
Explain the Council on Education for Public Health accreditation requirement for a practice experience
Discuss a case study of one school’s competency-based approach to fulfilling the CEPH practicum requirement
Compare self-perceived competence of MPH students before and after their practicum experience
Keyword(s): Public Health Curricula & Competencies, Accreditation
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am actively involved in graduate-level public health education. This past year I thought a course entitled, Leadership Case Studies in Public Health. I have assisted in the administration and teaching of numerous in-person and distance courses, as well as the curriculum development of the course that is the subject of this abstract. My research interests include improving public health education to meet workforce development needs.
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.
