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Effective Techniques for Training In Field Epidemiology Training Programs
300 Million There are PowerPoint users in the World * estimate *
30 Million They do Presentations Each Day * estimate *
Million About a Presentations are going on right now * estimate *
50% of them are Unbearable * Conservative estimate *
LOTSof People are KillingEach other with Bad Presentations NOW
Did You Know? Average Retention Rates • Lecture 5% • Reading 10% • Demonstrations 30% • Discussions 50% • Practice by Doing 75% • Teaching Others 90%
Do You Know? Percentage of time participants in lecture base training are inattentive? 40% Participants in training vs Control Group 8%
Do You Know? Adding visuals: 25 – 38% improvement in retention 40% reduction in time required to present a concept
What We DO Know….. Lecturing by itself will NEVER lead to real learning
Descriptive Studies • Used to describe the distribution of disease by time, place, person • Useful for hypothesis generation • The most frequent design strategy found in the epidemiologic literature
Descriptive Epidemiology Cases Time Person Place Who? Where? When?
Example • Some studies simply describe disease/health states/behaviours • prevalence of smoking • rates of lung cancer • Note: • Describing these factors does not link them • However can identify unusual distributions or correlations (e.g clusters) • These insights used to generate interesting hypothesis
Perform descriptive epidemiology: Person Age (yrs) Male Female Total < 1 10 14 24 1 - 14 18 25 43 15 - 29 33 60 93 30 - 49 57 52 109 50+ 23 26 49 Total 141 177 318 Table- Number of cases by age and sex
Perform descriptive epidemiology: Place Map cases
Develop Hypotheses • Use knowledge about the subject matter • Known sources and vehicles of transmission • Clinical symptoms of disease • Seek input from multiple sources • Cases • Local health officials • Go to field, investigate environment
It is NOT what you tell them that counts; it is what they take away Take the material from the “Nice to Know” To the “Need to Know” Goal: Learn SOMETHINGrather than being exposed toEVERYTHING
Make the Lecture Your own
Perform Descriptive Epidemiology: Time What does this graph tell you?
Perform Descriptive Epidemiology: Person Age (yrs) Male Female Total < 1 10 14 24 1 - 14 18 25 43 15 - 29 33 60 93 30 - 49 57 52 109 50+ 23 26 49 Total 141 177 318 Table- Number of cases by age and sex
Perform Descriptive Epidemiology: Place Map cases
Evaluate • What went well? • What did not? • Were there areas of confusion? Misunderstanding? • Debates? Discussions? • Enjoyed activities? Ineffective activities? How can I make this better for next time?
Evaluate When the horse you’re riding dies…GET OFF of it!
SOCO Effective training for Field Epidemiology Training Programs MUST be Problem Based and involve a variety of activities and delivery methods