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
- Create a learning community for population health and prevention educators in the health professions.
- Launch new population health and prevention curriculum modules and case studies.
- Stimulate formulation and dissemination of innovative curriculum and faculty development ideas in population health and prevention.
- 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:
- Describe curriculum innovations related to prevention and population health in health professions curricula.
- Discuss challenges related to curriculum and faculty development in population health and prevention.
- Illustrate cutting-edge curriculum innovations designed to meet the needs of health professions students in the era of health reform.
- Describe resource needs and constraints related to population health and prevention curriculum integration.
- Recognize best practices in prevention and population health education for health professionals.
- Explore models for collaboration between health professions training programs and public health agencies.