Are you more of a visual learner or do you prefer reading long-form pieces? Do you find it helpful to listen to podcasts during your commute or do you need focused time to learn? The answers to these questions can be wildly different from one person to the next. Combine a group of virtual learners …
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Health disparities are preventable differences in disease rates and access to health care for specific populations. Here’s what you need to consider.
Stub HTML Message text/html 29fb If there’s one thing that stands between you and a successful training project, it’s a fuzzy scope. Yes, training learners is the whole reason why you launch a professional development project. But if the project itself isn’t managed well, then it will be a struggle for everyone to get through, …
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When was the last time your supervisor dropped by and told you what an excellent job you were doing? And when was the last time you did the same for your subordinate? If you’re like most employees, we’re willing to bet it’s been a while. But feedback is an essential element of any professional development …
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Making the case for community health workers is an uphill battle — but it is always worth the effort.
You’ve seen the data: a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report is one of many that show how the CHW model can reduce admissions and lead to better health outcomes for hospitalized patients and outpatient settings.
Unfortunately, too many organizations still find it difficult to make the business case for hiring, using and training community health workers. They offer excuses about the expense, or they vastly underuse their existing CHWs.
Convincing decision-makers to deploy groups of frontline health workers may not be easy, but hopefully this round-up of return on investment studies will put you a small step forward. It’s a collection of some of the best ROI studies I’ve seen on why to hire and educate people working in the CHW role.
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Think back to your first day of school. Freshly pressed shirt, new backpack, sharpened pencils, and a lunchbox in hand. Starting a new learning path is not quite the same as it was when we were kids. But still, the right choice of a learning management system can make your professional development program exciting — …
Training assessments are the key to understanding. Whether you work in healthcare, public health, schools, businesses, or other organizations, they’re the best way to evaluate learner progress. They can help you and your facilitators identify areas where people need extra support in their training—and where your efforts are succeeding Feedback is one of the best …
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Let’s say you’re about to launch a local screening service. There was a similar program years ago that no one attended for some reason. You’re nervous about the new service failing, but you’re not sure how to prevent that. After all, you’re certain that this community needs this screening service. What would you do? The …
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Tips and best practices for improving your communication skills in online training programs with tools like announcements and forums.
When you’re thinking about creating a course, you need to think about who your target audience is. Despite being in the US, you may have a diverse staff who would benefit from you offering an online training program in multiple languages. This is especially the case when the course content includes topics like health literacy …
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