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Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers
Location
Internet
Term
Summer Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Introduction to Online Learning.
Identifies the role of training and continuing education as an important component of health service and personnel management. Participants are guided through the steps of planning training and continuing education activities for a range of health workers from managers to village volunteers. Draws on real-life examples from community-directed onchocerciasis control, village health worker programs, and patent medicine vendor training programs, to name a few. Participants prepare a training plan that includes needs assessment instruments, procedures for involving the trainees in their own learning, instructional objectives, appropriate learning methods and delivery modes, resource and budget needs, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, and follow-up supervision.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the role that training and continuing education play in personnel development and management
- Outline the contributions and limits of training in organizational management
- Explain the process of recruiting appropriate participants for a training program
- Identify and analyze tasks needed by trainees to perform their jobs
- Utilize training diagnosis results to choose appropriate content for training programs
- Formulate observable and measurable instructional objectives
- Link training content with appropriate training methods
- Plan training logistics that are convenient for trainees and match available resources
- Budget for training activities
- Develop a sample training guide
- List approaches and resources for distance education
- Describe methods for monitoring the process of training implementation
- Define the different levels of evaluation for a training program
- Describe various tools for evaluating outcomes