Fw: Third draft of the public health informatics competencies

[Bryant Thomas Karras]

many of you may be interested in this working draft of the Public Health
Informatics Competencies
please send any comments to me and Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick O'Carroll" <ocarroll at u.washington.edu>

Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:38 PM
Subject: RE: Third draft of the public health informatics competencies


| TO: Members of the Public Health Informatics Competencies Workgroup
|
| FROM: Patrick O'Carroll, CDC, at the Northwest Center for Public Health
| Practice
|
| Friends,
|
| You may recall that a number of us met in conjunction with last Fall's
APHA
| meeting, to review the second draft of the "Informatics Competencies for
| Public Health Professionals." I have finally finished incorporating the
| changes and recommendations made at that VERY productive meeting! The
third
| (and hopefully, near-final) draft of this document is now available at
| http://nwcphp.org/phi/comps/.
|
| The main changes since the last draft are:
|
| o reorganization of the competencies into three classes: (a) Class One,
| related to the use of information per se; (b) Class Two, related to the
use
| of information technology; and (c) Class THREE, related to the management
of
| information technology projects. (With one exception, all of the Class One
| competencies were drawn verbatim from the Council on Linkages Core
| Competencies listing.)
|
| o addition of proposed LEVELS OF SKILL (Aware, Knowledgeable, and
| Proficient) for each of the competencies, by workforce segment (front-line
| staff, senior-level technical staff, and supervisory/management staff). In
| keeping with our general approach, I adopted the terms and definitions of
| the Council on Linkages for the definition of these skill levels.
|
| If you have time, can you please review this latest draft? In particular,
| please see whether you agree with the levels of skill I have specified for
| the Class Two and Three competencies. I believe we are now fairly near our
| goal of releasing a useful "version one" document, but I would be happy to
| consider any suggestions for improvement.
|
|
| Best wishes to you all, and THANKS for all your help in the development of
| these competencies. I really believe they should be very useful in giving
us
| a common starting ground for the development of real-world-relevant
training
| for public health professionals!
|
| Patrick
| ---
|
| Patrick O'Carroll, MD, MPH
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at the
| Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
| University of Washington School of Public Health
|   and Community Medicine
| Voice: 206.616.9460
| Fax: 206.616.9415
| E-mail: ocarroll at u.washington.edu
|
|