competency based training

COMPETENCY BASED TRAININGMichigan Department of Community Health OPHP

Technical Advisory Committee

Rosemarie Rowney, MPH RN

Director of Training

February 9, 2004

What is a competency?• An extension of the agencies general

vision • A complex combination• Knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA’s)• Demonstrated by organization’s members• Critical to effective and efficient function

of an organization

Nelson, Essien, Latoff and Wiesner (1997)

How can they be used?

• Update/revise job description

• New employee orientation

• Employee training

• Self assessment…am I able to…?

Where do I find competencies?• Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health

Practice, Core Competencies for Public Health Workers, May 2001.

http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies

• CDC and Columbia University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy, Bioterrorism and Emergency Readiness: Competencies for all Public Health Workers, November 2002.

www.nursing.hs.columbia.edu

• Clinician Competencies for EmergencyPreparedness and Bioterrorism http://www.nursing.hs.columbia.edu/institute-centers/chphsr/clincomp

.html

How do you use competencies?

Competencies

Objectives

Content

Teaching methods

Technical/ Knowledgeable

How do you use the pyramid?

Skilled/ Proficient

Aware

What is the level of mastery?

Advanced

Intermediate

Basic

Individuals are able to. . .

Synthesize, critique, or teach

Apply and describe the skill

Identify the concept or skill, but limited ability to perform the skill

How do you write objectives?

Skilled/ Proficient

Technical/ Knowledgeable

Awareness

assess, apply, evaluate, integrate, illustrate

analyze, detect, identify, distinguish, classify

define, be familiar with, understand, recognize

Course Design and Development: Steps

1. Utilize previous needs assessment findings

2. Identify target audience

45 local health departments and MDCH

Other

3. Identify course faculty

Academics

Public health practitioners

4. Convene curriculum subcommittee, including faculty, staff and target audience

Course Design and Development: Steps

5. Identify competencies for each training

6. Create objectives from competencies and needs assessment to develop training content

7. Determine teaching methods based on objectives and adult learning principals

• Finalize course logistics (location, time, date, registration, marketing, CEUs)

• Develop evaluation instrument

Questions???