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Conference on Positive Aging:  An Interdisciplinary Approach for Health Professionals

November 26th and 27th, 2010 -Vancouver, BC

Continuing Education Credits:

A certificate of attendence will be prepared for all registrants including the number of hours of educational instruction and pre-approved continuing education credits where appropriate.

To view the conference brochure:  http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/Brochures/PositiveAging2010.pdf

Obtaining CNA Certification

For further information see certification

Skills Enhancement For Public Health (Skills Online)

CHNC has an established partnership with the Skills Online Program. This is a national program which reaches community health professionals across Canada and provides state-of-the-art educational tools. The mission of the program is "To provide public health professionals with epidemiological and related skills to conduct evidence-based decision-making and planning at the local level." A variety of activities are offered through the program. CHNC and its members have benefited in numerous ways from this partnership, including early opportunities to access the program, reviewing the modules and providing expert feedback, and becoming program facilitators.

What is Skills Online?

• Internet-based continuing education program
• A series of modules offered in both English and French
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Increase knowledge, skills and abilities to support public health core competencies
• Lead by Public Health Agency of Canada

Modules currently available:

Orientation Modules:

• Introduction to online learning
• Facilitator training

Content Modules

• Basic Epidemiological Concepts
• Measurement of Health Status
• Descriptive Epidemiologic Methods
• Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
• Outbreak investigation and management
• Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
• Applied Epidemiology: Injuries

For further information click here (external link)

Core Competencies

Core competencies are a set of essential skills and abilities necessary for the broad practice of public health:

• Basic building blocks to develop the public health workforce
• Transcend discipline specific boundaries of individual disciplines
• Independent of program/topic
• Potential to further depth and role of public health

The Canadian Public Health Core Competencies are grouped under 7 domains:

1. Core public health sciences
2. Assessment and analysis
3. Policy development and program planning
4. Partnership , collaboration and advocacy
5. Communication
6. Socio-cultural
7. Leadership

For further information click here (external link)

Core Competencies for Public Health

Members may be interested in linking to the Core Competencies at http://www.corecompetencies.ca where there are more detailed explanations, elearning modules, and an interactive section colleagues can use to help them integrate core competencies in their practice.