TRAIN, the nation’s premier learning management system for professionals and volunteers who protect the public’s health, would like to thank everyone who participated in the first of a three-part webinar series on accreditation. The first live webinar, Public Health Accreditation & Competency Based Learning: A Model Based on the TRAIN Learning Management System, on November 15, 2011 was a huge success with over 140 connections representing hundreds of public health professionals involved with accreditation and performance improvement learning how to:
- Recognize the key tracking requirements that meet accreditation standards.
- Explain Kentucky’s use of a self-assessment tool to analyze workforce training needs.
- List at least two reasons why core competencies matter for today’s public health workforce.
- Discuss how one state has delivered a workforce self-assessment survey tool and captured assessment data via the TRAIN learning management system.
Presenters from the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), Kentucky Department for Public Health, Public Health Foundation (PHF), and University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health highlighted the importance of competency based training and education in light of public health accreditation. The Kentucky Department of Health demonstrated their self-assessment tool which can be used to analyze workforce training needs.
An archived version of the webinar will be available on TRAIN soon for interested public health professionals who were unable to attend.
Save the Dates for the second and third webinars in this series: January 24, 2012 and March 20, 2012.