Session: Innovative Practice-based Teaching Methods for Graduate Professional Education


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

3164.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

Innovative Practice-based Teaching Methods for Graduate Professional Education

This session will demonstrate successful approaches to practice-based teaching. Practice-based teaching is an applied method of teaching that provides a comprehensive learning experience for students, academicians, and agency preceptors involved. Scholarly, practice-based teaching strengthens public health academia’s role to improve the public health infrastructure by developing a more skilled and culturally diverse public health workforce. Highlights will focus on the integration of health education, participatory research and community service in multi-level, community-based practice settings; a service learning model for graduate training; problem-based learning; and, the use of “learning communities.”

Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss three implications of an applied internship practice in the education of public health practitioners. 2. Learn how practice-based teaching methods strengthen graduate level programs and produce well trained public health professionals 3. Understand the ingredients necessary to tie community practice to academic instruction on the masters level 4. Identify the benefits of learning communities as part of MPH preparation

Facilitator(s):

Augusta M. Villanueva, PhD

12:30 PM

EMSMPHE: The mechanics & utility of a practice-based public health curriculum