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Teaching Prevention 2010

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Join us for a one-and-a-half day faculty development meeting for medical and health professions educators, and public health program faculty involved in teaching public health or population health to a broadening mix of students. Participants will network and learn from colleagues in a dynamic small-group, workshop setting while sharing latest teaching methods, research, and successful education approaches.

 

  • Responding to health reform: Curriculum innovations for changing times
  • Public Health Education: Growth and transformation

Goals

  1. Create a learning community for population health and prevention educators in the health professions.
  2. Launch new population health and prevention curriculum modules and case studies.
  3. Stimulate formulation and dissemination of innovative curriculum and faculty development ideas in population health and prevention.
  4. Promote integration of multiple disciplines, including public health, into prevention and population health teaching, training and practice in the era of health reform.

Objectives
Attendees of this meeting will:

  1. Describe curriculum innovations related to prevention and population health in health professions curricula.
  2. Discuss challenges related to curriculum and faculty development in population health and prevention.
  3. Illustrate cutting-edge curriculum innovations designed to meet the needs of health professions students in the era of health reform.
  4. Describe resource needs and constraints related to population health and prevention curriculum integration.
  5. Recognize best practices in prevention and population health education for health professionals.
  6. Explore models for collaboration between health professions training programs and public health agencies.

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