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Welcome

This course in Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers identifies the role of training and continuing education as an important component of health service and personnel management. Participants will be guided through the steps of planning training and continuing education activities for a range of health workers from managers to village volunteers. The course draws on real life examples from community-directed onchocerciasis control, village health worker programs, and patent medicine vendor training programs, to name a few.

As a final project, participants will prepare a training plan that includes needs assessment instruments, procedures for involving the trainees in their own learning, instructional objectives, appropriate learning methods and delivery modes, resource and budget needs, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and follow-up supervision. Participants may wish to use the training guide they develop for this course as a foundation for an MPH capstone project. Please contact the instructor for details.

OpenCourseWare

Some of the content in this course is available to the public, free of charge, via a JHSPH OpenCourseWare site. OpenCourseWare is ideal for learners who are not interested in accumulating academic credit toward a degree and/or are unable to find funding for tuition.

Student Comments

  • "I must say, this course has...changed my beliefs about training and doing it right. I'll be putting this class to good use."
  • "I thoroughly enjoyed the course and truly benefited from it...Again thank you."
  • "Great class. I loved the knowledge I learned about designing and planning instructor-led training in Africa. The situations are so unique and real."
  • "I had a lot of fun in this course. Thanks."
  • "This course provides extremely thorough training on all aspects related to health worker training, and is particularly relevant to a developing world setting. By actually working through all the steps in a training manual, the students come away very confident about having practical skills to plan, implement, and evaluate training programs."
  • "The instructor was very enthusiastic, well-organized, and involved. He applied lots of good real world examples to illustrate the material and he gave very useful constructive feedback. His experience and knowledge was very apparent throughout the course."
  • "Extremely useful for health workers doing training out in the field."
Course Information
Course Number
Term
Units
221.606.81
Summer
4
Course Type: Single Term
Faculty: Brieger
Prerequisites:
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