EDUCATION

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EDUCATION
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Professional Education Component

• Nan Leslie, RNC, PhD
• Anne Cather, MD
• Susan McCrone, BSN, PhD
• March 30, 2006

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Define our Audience The West Virginia Profile

• High death rates
• Heart disease 50th
• Cancer 51st
• Chronic lower respiratory disease -50th
• Diabetes 50th
• Smokers 51st
• Chronic preventable diseases/problems
• Hypertension 48th
• Obesity 49th
• Physical inactivity 45th

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West Virginia Profile

• 929,174 women
• 95.4 white, 3.2 black, 0.6 each Hispanic or
  Asian/Pacific Islander
• Low level of health insurance for W lt 65 48th
• We have not met Health People 2010 targets-
• ? death due to heart disease
• ? death due to lung cancer
• Early adequate prenatal care - 10th

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WVU Diversity of Learners

• WVU Health Sciences Center
• Medical 423 312 residents
• Nursing - 573
• Pharmacy - 352
• Dentistry Dental Hygiene - 296
• Allied- Exercise Physiology, Occupational
  Therapy, Medical Technology, MPH 960
• WVU- 26,000 undergraduate? post graduate

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Diverse Training/Education Programs

• Womens health curriculum is being identified,
  strengthened, developed across the health
  professions
• Certificate in Womens Health
• Curriculum in Womens Health Rotation
• The Heart Truth curriculum
• HMS Womens Health Education
• Assessment in Medical School / CurrMIT
• Pharmacy track

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Womens Health Education Certificate

• 15 credit womens health certificate program
• Offers upper level undergraduates graduate
  students across campus the opportunity to be
  certified as womens health care professionals
• Stresses health care needs of women of WV

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Curriculum in Womens HealthRotation

• 1 month rotation developed for a medicine
  resident or a 4th year medical student
• Supervised direct patient care activities (COE
  clinic, Internal Medicine clinic, WVU Student
  Health Service)
• Didactic lectures Assigned readings
• Small group discussions
• Patients- age 18-85, varied race and
  socioeconomic backgrounds

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The Heart Truth Curriculum

• Program sponsored by NHLBI DHHS
• SoM Assoc. Dean of Medical Education ? endorsed
• Identified areas at all 4 years UGME curriculum
  GME curriculum
• Variety of learning styles- lectures,
  standardized patients, computer based
  self-learning

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Other tools

• HMS COEs Womens Health Education Assessment in
  Medical School at the End of the Core Clerkships
  online survey
• Data base inquiry of our school and where there
  can be improvements
• Access to other/better practices among other
  medical schools

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Use of IT to Educate Students in Rural Areas

• Ongoing commitment to serve WV people in
  medically underserved areas
• 3 month education experience in a rural area
• Interdisciplinary health professional education
• Service project during rural education clinical
  rotation
• Wise Woman project-WV women tested traditional WV
  recipes which were adapted to reduce fat
  calories (nursing)

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Public Health Grand RoundsCapture School Wide
Talks

• Public Health Challenge Obesity in West Virginia
  
• Occupational Stressors and Adverse Birth Outcomes
• Oral Health and Pregnancy

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Use of IT to Educate Professionals in Rural Areas

• Community Medicine learning modules surrounding
  public health issues in womens health
• School of Pharmacy learning module focusing on
  folic acid and its implications for womens
  health
• Pharmacy expanding? pathophysiology and
  therapeutics course- mens health and womens
  health section

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Pharmacy Track

• Womens health elective over life span
• Adolescence
• Drug advertising influence on behavior
• Disease management, pregnancy
• preeclampsia, tocolytics, endometriosis,
  infertility
• In development ready for spring 07

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Collaboration

• Mentorship program for women (collaborate with
  Leadership Working Group)
• Interdisciplinary alliances
• College of Business Economics-development of
  internal communications model for CoEWH
• Undergraduate Graduate B E student interns
  working with CoEWH

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Serve as a Change agent within the University

• Ongoing
• Determine womens health content in health
  professions curriculum
• Stress need for culturally competent health care
  especially for WV women
• Establish Diversity Task Force Invited guest
  speaker in GLBT learning issues into HSC- Exam of
  the GLBT patient)
• Integrate informatics distance education
  modalities to offer holistic womens health
  education to health care providers

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Professional Education Working Group

• Doris Nicholas,
• Sue Day-Perroots
• Julie Patrick
• Sheila Price
• Jamie Shumway
• Leslie Tower

• Nancy Adams
• Christina DeBiase
• Teri Dunsworth
• Valerie Frey-McClung
• Maureen Hashmi
• Ruth Kershner
• Rashida Khakoo
• Nan Leslie
• Kari Long
• Mary Beth Mandich

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Ruth Kershner EdD, RN, CHES

• Womens Health
• West Virginia University

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Womens Health Graduate Certificate

• Addresses the policy, political, economic,
  sociocultural, ethical, familial, and diversity
  issues applicable to women and health care.
• Emphasize the instruction and inclusion of skills
  necessary to serve as educators in the womens
  health field.
• The Womens Health graduate certificate faculty
  will work with students to mentor and guide them
  in their specialized areas of focus

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Womens Health Graduate Certificate

• Seeks to educate students about the complexities
  of womens health
• Increase students knowledge and skills germane
  to educational interventions.
• Program outcomes will be measured through
  examinations, course assignments, observation,
  and a culminating project.

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Women Health Certificate

• HNF 610 - Nutrition and Fitness - OR HNF 612 -
  Maternal Child Health Nutrition- 3 Hrs.
• NURS 660 - Advanced Topics in Reproductive Health
  - 2 Hrs.
• PUBA 779 - Womens Health Care Policy - 1 Hr.
• PUBH 620 - Women and Violence - 3 Hrs.
• PUBH 621 - Issues in Womens Health -3 Hrs.
• PUBH 628 Aging, Women and Cultural Issues - 3
  Hrs

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Learning Outcomes

• Increase knowledge about health as applicable to
  women
• Improve ability to read and critically analyze
  the literature
• Analyze and incorporate policy decisions in
  program planning
• Create health education materials
• Incorporate the concept of racial and ethnic and
  other elements of diversity as applicable to
  womens health education

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MPH Womens Health Emphasis

• Incorporates the coursework of the Womens Health
  Certificate with coursework in the Masters in
  Public Health Program. Additional Coursework
  includes
• CHPR 612 - Social and Behavioral Theory - 3 Hrs.
• PUBH 611 - Applied Biostatistics for Health - 3
  Hrs.
• PUBH 630 - Policy and the Health System - 3 Hrs.
• PUBH 650 - Environmental Health - 3 Hrs.
• PUBH 660 - Public Health Epidemiology - 3 Hrs.
• PUBH 691 - Seminar - 1 Hr.
• PUBH 691E - Survey Methods - 3 Hrs.
• PUBH 689 - Practicum - 8 Hrs.

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Other Efforts

• Fall 2006 Honors Course Womens Health and
  Fitness- addresses mental and physical well-being
  incorporating a fitness component.

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Ruth Brags about Student Efforts

• Teaching Manual
• Designed for professionals working in primary,
  secondary, and tertiary care specific to violence
• Addresses concept of violence in the Southeast
  Asian female population
• Inservice and evaluation of knowledge acquisition
  
• Student created manual, delivered educational
  intervention, and evaluated results

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Ruth brags about another student)

• Creation of a health manual for those working
  with African American women
• Incorporates component of cultural competence as
  integral part of curriculum
• Inservice planned for social workers, counselors,
  nurses, lay helpers. CEUs as appropriate

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