35.04 Continuing medical education and training of core competencies for public health professionals

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sadrivaan A and B (The Hilton Istanbul Hotel )
Xiangqun Mao Center for Disease Control and Prevention Jiangxi Province, China, China
 Continuing medical education and training of Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
 Mao Xiangqun . Center for Disease Control and Prevention Jiangxi Province, China  (Nanchang  330029 ,China)

  [Abstract] This article analyzed such problems as more training in specialty, less training in competencies, monotonous ways of evaluation and so on in the continuing medical education for Chinese public health professionals. It emphasized the opinion of carrying out various educations surrounding the training of core competencies for public health professionals by continuing medical education. Combining with practice, analyze the effects of continuing medical education plays on the promotion of core competencies for public health professionals, this article put forward the proposals of enriching training content of continuing medical education, and perfected the public health professional's training pattern in all levels and probing into the way of evaluation of core competencies.
[key word] education, core competencies


Learning Objectives: To analyze the effects of continuing medical education plays on the promotion of Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, this article put forward the proposals of enriching training content of continuing medical education, and perfected the public health professional's training pattern in all levels and probing into the way of evaluation of core competencies.

Sub-Theme: The role of continuing education in health care development