Third draft of the public health informatics competencies

[David Masuda]

How does this relate to the MPH certificate?


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Research reports that merit a trip to the library...
A software approach to hair removal from images, T. Lee, V. Ng, R.
Gallagher, A. Coldman, and D. Mclean, Computers in Biology and Medicine,
vol. 27, no. 6, Dec. 11, 1997, pp. 533-43.
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-----Original Message-----
From: PH-INFO-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:PH-INFO-owner at u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Bryant Thomas
Karras
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:09 PM
To: Discussion Forum for public health informatics
Subject: Fw: Third draft of the public health informatics competencies


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
|
|