1. COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING
Michigan Department of Community Health OPHP
Technical Advisory Committee
Rosemarie Rowney, MPH RN
Director of Training
February 9, 2004

2. 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)

3. How can they be used? Update/revise job description
New employee orientation
Employee training
Self assessment…am I able to…?

4. Where do I find competencies?
Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Core Competencies for Public Health Workers, May 2001.
CDC and Columbia University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy, Bioterrorism and Emergency Readiness: Competencies for all Public Health Workers, November 2002.
Clinician Competencies for Emergency Preparedness and Bioterrorism

5. How do you use competencies?
Objectives
Content
Teaching methods

6. How do you use the pyramid?
Technical/ Knowledgeable
Skilled/ Proficient
Aware

7. What is the level of mastery?
Advanced
Intermediate
Basic

8. 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

9. How do you write objectives?
assess, apply, evaluate, integrate, illustrate
analyze, detect, identify, distinguish, classify
Skilled/ Proficient
Technical/ Knowledgeable
define, be familiar with, understand, recognize
Awareness

10. Course Design and Development: Steps
Utilize previous needs assessment findings
Identify target audience
45 local health departments and MDCH
Other
Identify course faculty
Academics
Public health practitioners
Convene curriculum subcommittee, including faculty, staff and target audience

11. Course Design and Development: Steps
Identify competencies for each training
Create objectives from competencies and needs assessment to develop training content
Determine teaching methods based on objectives and adult learning principals
Finalize course logistics (location, time, date, registration, marketing, CEUs)
Develop evaluation instrument

12. Questions???