COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING Michigan Department of Community Health OPHP Technical Advisory Committee Rosemarie Rowney, MPH RN Director of Training February 9, 2004
Jan 16, 2016
COMPETENCY BASED TRAININGMichigan Department of Community Health OPHP
Technical Advisory Committee
Rosemarie Rowney, MPH RN
Director of Training
February 9, 2004
What is a competency?• An extension of the agencies general
vision • A complex combination• Knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA’s)• Demonstrated by organization’s members• Critical to effective and efficient function
of an organization
Nelson, Essien, Latoff and Wiesner (1997)
How can they be used?
• Update/revise job description
• New employee orientation
• Employee training
• Self assessment…am I able to…?
Where do I find competencies?• Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health
Practice, Core Competencies for Public Health Workers, May 2001.
http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies
• CDC and Columbia University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy, Bioterrorism and Emergency Readiness: Competencies for all Public Health Workers, November 2002.
www.nursing.hs.columbia.edu
• Clinician Competencies for EmergencyPreparedness and Bioterrorism http://www.nursing.hs.columbia.edu/institute-centers/chphsr/clincomp
.html
How do you use competencies?
Competencies
Objectives
Content
Teaching methods
Technical/ Knowledgeable
How do you use the pyramid?
Skilled/ Proficient
Aware
What is the level of mastery?
Advanced
Intermediate
Basic
Individuals are able to. . .
Synthesize, critique, or teach
Apply and describe the skill
Identify the concept or skill, but limited ability to perform the skill
How do you write objectives?
Skilled/ Proficient
Technical/ Knowledgeable
Awareness
assess, apply, evaluate, integrate, illustrate
analyze, detect, identify, distinguish, classify
define, be familiar with, understand, recognize
Course Design and Development: Steps
1. Utilize previous needs assessment findings
2. Identify target audience
45 local health departments and MDCH
Other
3. Identify course faculty
Academics
Public health practitioners
4. Convene curriculum subcommittee, including faculty, staff and target audience
Course Design and Development: Steps
5. Identify competencies for each training
6. Create objectives from competencies and needs assessment to develop training content
7. Determine teaching methods based on objectives and adult learning principals
• Finalize course logistics (location, time, date, registration, marketing, CEUs)
• Develop evaluation instrument
Questions???