The Peoples-Uni Pilot Module:
Lessons on developing public health competences
Fiona Reynolds
(Public Health Associate)
A Public Health Problem
o Impact of health on economic
development.o Public health issues:
HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis Poverty
o Workforce and training issues.Worldwide causes of childhood mortality
A Public Health Solution?
o Free and open resources
o Peoples-Uni
Pilot: Maternal Mortality
o 10 weeks
o 5 topics, based on competences
o 3 assessments
o 2 expert facilitators and 2 general facilitators
o 1 Moodle
A Framework
o Identify a health problem.
o Identify the educational need.
o Identify the competences required to meet the need.
Competences
o A search was conducted through MEDLINE and various Internet search engines with secondary searching.
o Focus on those produced by national, regional or international bodies were explored.
Competency ‘Problems’
o Developed countries.
o Curriculum based rather than problem based.
o Variation in range and depth.
o Assessment.
Back to the Framework
o Mapping.
o Combine.
o Identify resources.
o Develop the module – build the course.
o Assess.
Results
o 38 students enrolled.
o 19 completed the evaluation January ’08.
o Learning and skills development.
o Global conversations.
Conclusionso Education and skills
development around Open Education Resources.
o Competence and problem based approaches.
o Generating competences.
The Future
o Royal Society of Health (UK) accreditation?
o 6 modules to build a Public Health Diploma by September 2008
o Volunteers
o Robots!
Contact
o Dick Heller – People’s University Project Lead
o Fiona Reynolds
Muchas Gracias!
