Teaching Population Health: A Competency Map Approach To Education
Title
Teaching Population Health: A Competency Map Approach To Education
Creator
Kaprielian V S; Silberberg M; McDonald M A; Koo D; Hull S K; Murphy G; Tran A N; Sheline B L; Halstater B; Martinez-Bianchi V; Weigle N J; de Oliveira J S; Sangvai D; Copeland J; Tilson H H; Scutchfield F D; Michener J L
Publisher
Academic Medicine
Date
2013
2013-05
Description
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.
Subject
academic-medical-center; community; Education & Educational Research; Health Care Sciences & Services; perspective; public-health
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Format
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Pages
626-637
Issue
5
Volume
88
Citation
Kaprielian V S; Silberberg M; McDonald M A; Koo D; Hull S K; Murphy G; Tran A N; Sheline B L; Halstater B; Martinez-Bianchi V; Weigle N J; de Oliveira J S; Sangvai D; Copeland J; Tilson H H; Scutchfield F D; Michener J L, “Teaching Population Health: A Competency Map Approach To Education,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed May 10, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/10405.