Public Health Grand Rounds at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Evaluation Feedback From a Broad Community of Learners

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• Journal Article:
  J Public Health Manag Pract
• Personal Author:
  Iskander, John ; Ari, Mary ; Chen, Bin ; Hall, Sharon ; Ghiya, Neelam ; Popovic, Tanja
• Description:
  Objective: ; To evaluate the relevance and educational benefit of monthly Public Health Grand Rounds (GR), an hour-long interactive lecture series featuring 1 current, relevant public health topic. ; Design: ; Quantitative and qualitative analysis of data evaluating GR format and content submitted by 2063 continuing education (CE) participants. ; Setting: ; Survey data submitted electronically to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention online CE system from January 2010 through December 2011. ; Participants: ; Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, health education specialists, and other health care professionals seeking CE credits for Public Health GR. ; Main Outcome Measures: ; Proportion of respondents agreeing or strongly agreeing that GR is using educational strategies that enhance user learning and is meeting preidentified learning objectives. ; Results: ; On questions involving instructional strategies and delivery methods, 95.0% and 95.6% of respondents, respectively, agreed or strongly agreed that the GR was conducive to learning. More than 90% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that they could describe the burden of the disease/condition in question and identify key preventive interventions, knowledge gaps, and measures of public health progress. ; Conclusions: ; These evaluation results indicate that the GR is meeting content-specific and educational needs of diverse health care professionals. The GR models organized scientific discussions on evidence and translation into real-world impacts of decreased morbidity, mortality, and health care costs, and links public health to clinical practice. This promotes a greater understanding of the interplay of different health fields and may lead to greater and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
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• Subjects:
  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Education, Continuing
  • Feedback
  • Female
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Public Health
  • Teaching Rounds
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• Keywords:
  • continuing education
  • evaluation
  • public health
• Source:
  J Public Health Manag Pract. 20(5):542-550
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0b013e3182aa6560
• Pubmed ID:
  24100242
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6529180
• Document Type:
  Text ; Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/78663/cdc_78663_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 77.00 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
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