TRAIN, the nation’s premier learning management system for professionals and volunteers who protect the public’s health, would like to invite public health professionals involved with accreditation and performance improvement to the second of a three-part webinar series on accreditation, Public Health Accreditation & Competency Based Learning: A Model Based on the TRAIN Learning Management System (Webinar 2), on January 24, 2011 at 2-3 pm ET.
Launched by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) on September 14, 2011, PHAB’s public health department accreditation process seeks to advance quality and performance within public health departments. Accreditation standards define the expectations for all public health departments that seek to become accredited. National public health department accreditation has been developed because of the desire to improve service, value, and accountability to stakeholders.1
Accreditation through PHAB provides a means for a department to identify performance improvement opportunities, to improve management, develop leadership, and improve relationships with the community. The process is one that will challenge the health department to think about what business it does and how it does that business. It will encourage and stimulate quality and performance improvement in the health department. It will also stimulate greater accountability and transparency.2
TRAIN’s one-hour webinar, Public Health Accreditation & Competency Based Learning: A Model Based on the TRAIN Learning Management System (Webinar 2), will focus on Domain 8: Assure a Competent Public Health Care Workforce. Topics such as workforce development plans, self-assessments, and training plans will be discussed and demonstrated.
Webinar Objectives
At the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
- Discuss the TRAIN survey function used as a self-assessment taken by health department employees.
- Explain the evaluation of the assessment method and validation of the instrument.
- Associate the TRAIN My Training Plan and a public health core competency-based curriculum.
- State the application of the TRAIN Survey and My Training Plan functions with state, local, tribal, and territorial public health department accreditation requirements.
- Recognize how managers and the workforce can utilize TRAIN for tracking training and measuring performance through the Master Training Plan.
- Discuss how the Master Training Plan can be utilized for tracking and reporting the linkages between training and the Core Public Health Competencies, Public Health Preparedness Capabilities, and PHAB standards.
Register on TRAIN today as seating is limited! To register, click here and select the “Registration” tab, which will prompt you to either login to TRAIN if you already have an account or create a new account if you do not have a TRAIN account.
If there are questions regarding the webinar, please contact Lois Banks (lbanks@phf.org).
Save the Date for the third webinar in this series: March 20, 2012.
1. Public Health Accreditation Board. Accessed November 10, 2011.
2. Public Health Accreditation Board. Accessed November 10, 2011.