INTRODUCTION In 2012, the Great Plains Public Health Training Center (Grant #UB6HP22821) conducted an online survey of state and local health departments and the American Indian (tribal clinics, tribal health departments, and urban Indian clinic) public health workforce across three professional levels. The objectives of the needs assessment were to determine the competency levels of the state'...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of information on how to scale-up evidence-based psychological interventions, particularly within the context of existing HIV programs. This paper describes a strategy for the scale-up of an intervention delivered by lay health workers (LHWs) to 60 primary health care facilities in Zimbabwe. METHODS A mixed methods approach was utilized as follows: (1) needs asses...

Instructional design students are typically provided with a strong set of instructional design theories and models as a major component of an instructional design degree. These models vary in particulars but include three basic questions: Where do you need to go? (learner and needs assessment) How will you get there? (instructional strategies) How will you know when you have arrived? (evaluatio...

OBJECTIVES Goals and objectives of the APA/HRSA National Faculty Development Scholars Program are described in a companion article in this supplement. Program objectives of the Community-Based Teaching Track were to 1) identify individuals with faculty development skills to serve as regional leaders, conducting local and regional workshops; 2) create a national network of leaders, thereby promo...

First published in 2006, the first European core syllabus in Adult Respiratory Medicine was developed with the intention of harmonising education and training throughout Europe. Internationally recognised by the European Union of Medical Specialists and identified as the first document of its kind in respiratory medicine, it has provided a comprehensive guide for both local and national institu...

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Medication prescribing is becoming increasingly complex, and the need for formal curricula in pharmacotherapeutics and medication prescribing in accredited family medicine residency programs has been advocated. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The main objective of the pharmacotherapeutic curriculum is to support the development of family medicine residents' pharmacotherapeutic kn...

INTRODUCTION As of 2001, the Philippines ranks 7th among the world's 22 countries with a heavy tuberculosis (TB) burden. As the country accelerates its campaign to control the global epidemic, the Philippine Tuberculosis Initiatives for the Private Sector (PhilTIPS) joined the efforts to combat it through the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy and brought it to the level o...