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Teaching Population Health: A Competency Map Approach to Education
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries, 2013.
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Abstract
- A 2012 Institute of Medicine report is the latest in the growing number of calls to incorporate a population health approach in health professionals' training. Over the last decade, Duke University, particularly its Department of Community and Family Medicine, has been heavily involved with community partners in Durham, North Carolina, to improve the local community's health. On the basis of these initiatives, a group of interprofessional faculty began tackling the need to fill the curriculum gap to train future health professionals in public health practice, community engagement, critical thinking, and team skills to improve population health effectively in Durham and elsewhere. The Department of Community and Family Medicine has spent years in care delivery redesign and curriculum experimentation, design, and evaluation to distinguish the skills trainees and faculty need for population health improvement and to integrate them into educational programs. These clinical and educational experiences have led to a set of competencies that form an organizational framework for curricular planning and training. This framework delineates which learning objectives are appropriate and necessary for each learning level, from novice through expert, across multiple disciplines and domains. The resulting competency map has guided Duke's efforts to develop, implement, and assess training in population health for learners and faculty. In this article, the authors describe the competency map development process as well as examples of its application and evaluation at Duke and limitations to its use with the hope that other institutions will apply it in different settings.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Faculty, Medical
education
Health Promotion
Population health
Article
Education
Health care
North Carolina
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Humans
Medicine
Program Development
Curriculum
Medical education
Community engagement
business.industry
Public health
Community Participation
Internship and Residency
International health
General Medicine
humanities
Physician Assistants
Health promotion
Community Medicine
Health education
Clinical Competence
Public Health
Family Practice
business
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3256cefaa5dcebf65713cdd82324ccaf
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.17615/pwam-nh03