Wendy Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd, State Health Officer and Senior Administrator, Public Health Division, Wyoming Department of Health; Chair, Training Impact Task Force
High-quality continuing education is vital to the maintenance of a competent public health workforce. In today’s rapidly changing environment, public health professionals are continually developing their knowledge and skills in order to meet the public health needs of their communities. Maximizing the impact of public health training opportunities facilitates the greatest return on the limited time and other resources available for professional development activities, and measuring the effectiveness of training efforts can both demonstrate the value of those resource investments and improve the quality of future training.
The Improving and Measuring the Impact of Training document is meant to guide trainers, public health organizations, and sponsors of training in enhancing and evaluating the training process and divides training into five stages: assess, motivate, design, deliver, and evaluate. Based on their experiences, Task Force members believe that using the strategies identified in this document will help improve training outcomes for learners and their organizations; do you agree?
Draft Document Available for Review
The current version of the
Improving and Measuring the Impact of Training document is available online for public comment. We encourage you to review this draft document and share your feedback on whether the strategies and methods identified are useful and will improve training. Are the strategies clear? Are key items missing? Do you know of great tools to help public health professionals improve their training efforts that should be included? Share your expertise and help strengthen public health training efforts by adding your thoughts in the Comments section below or on the
draft document webpage, or by emailing Kathleen Amos at
[email protected].
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