Graduate MCH Education: Current Activities and Professional Needs of MCH Teachers

1. Graduate MCH Education:Current Activities and Professional Needs of MCH Teachers Molly McNulty, JD Cynthia Childs, MPH Candidate University of Rochester School of Medicine Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health Mid-Year Meetng 5 March 2002

2. Acknowledgments • Funded by the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health • Survey design • With input from Jonathan Kotch, Eugene deClerq, and Arden Handler • Questions related to the organization of MCH teaching were used with the permission of Bernie Guyer • Survey administration • Ann Dozer, RN, PhD, Cynthia Childs, MPH candidate, and Joseph Duckett, all of the Public Health Practice Research Group at the University of Rochester • Data cleaning and entry - Cynthia Childs • Data analysis by Molly McNulty (c) University of Rochester

3. ATMCH 2001 Summer Intern Cynthia Childs, MFA Cchilds@aol.com • MPH Candidate at University of Rochester • Former graphic artist • Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, East Africa • Interests: maternal and child health, breastfeeding, nutrition, social marketing (c) University of Rochester

4. Background – The MCH Competencies • Basis for curricular development and continuing education • Five MCH Competencies • Scientific Basis of MCH and Public Health • Methodological and Analytical Skills • Management & Communication Skills • Policy and Advocacy Skills • Values & Ethics in MCH Public Health Practice • http://www.atmch.org/mchcomps.PDF (c) University of Rochester

5. Objectives • Membership needs assessment • To expand ATMCH membership by identifying services in demand by non/potential members • To assess interest in a Continuing Education Institute (c) University of Rochester

6. Methods • Survey Pool = 700 • ATMCH membership database N = 202 • Non members N = 498 • MCH Training Grantees • Nursing, Social work, Preventive Medicine web sites • Response Rate = 21% N = 148 • ATMCH 20% N = 21 • Non Members 21% N = 107 • Email survey October 2001 - January 2002 (c) University of Rochester

7. Survey Respondents Percent ofATMCHNon Members • Schools • Public Health 83% 21% • Medicine 5% 9% • Nursing 0% 60% • Rank • Professor 34% 21% • Associate 20% 24% • Assistant 22% 36% (c) University of Rochester

8. Survey Respondents - Percent ATMCHNon Members • Sex • Female 59% 80% • Male 29% 13% • Age • 60+ 17% 7% • 40 - 60 59% 81% • 20 – 39 5% 36% • Minority 17% 10% (c) University of Rochester

9. Top 5 Types of Help Wanted ATMCH Members • Curriculum development 41% • Textbook review 37% • Course development 32% • Course evaluation 32% • Service Learning 12% (c) University of Rochester

10. Top 5 Types of Help Wanted Non Members • Mentoring 34% • Textbook review 33% • Curriculum development 25% • Course development 23% • Service learning 18% (c) University of Rochester

11. Top 5 Topics of Assistance ATMCH Members • Policy Analysis and Development 27% • Cultural Competence 24% • Advocacy 15% • Children with disabilities 15% • International / Perinatal (tie) 12% (c) University of Rochester

12. Top 5 Topics of Assistance Non Members • Cultural Competence 27% • Perinatal & infant health 20% • Women’s health 20% • Adolescent health 17% • International health 16% (c) University of Rochester

13. Teaching Research Methods ATMCH Members Epidemiology 24% Assessment 20% Program and Evalution 20% Qualitative Methods 12% (c) University of Rochester

14. Teaching Research Methods Non Members Program and evaluation 17% Assessment 8% Epidemiology 7% Policy and law 7% (c) University of Rochester

15. Continuing Education Institute • ATMCH sponsored CE Institute • To be offered at APHA Annual Meeting • Titled Teaching MCH: Tools and Techniques for Teaching Maternal and Child Health Competencies • Proposal reviewed by APHA • Acceptance rate = 10/60 (c) University of Rochester

16. Interest in Continuing Education Institute ATMCHNon Members Yes 46% 17% Maybe 37% 56% Yes + Maybe 83% 73% No 7% 21% (c) University of Rochester

17. Need For aContinuing Education Institute MCH Competencies ATMCH Non members Familiarity 73% 28% Use at least 1 56% 35% in teaching (c) University of Rochester

18. Topics of Interest in aContinuing Education Institute Percent ofATMCHNon Members Distance learning 44 25 Funding for curricula 32 35 Tools & techniques 54 46 Tests, projects 39 45 Textbook Review 34 25 Student development 27 28 Syllabi 49 40 Web-based teaching tools 59 25 (c) University of Rochester

19. Membership Needs Assessment -Conclusions • Technical assistance with creating a new MCH Program is not a priority among ATMCH members • Teaching support is wanted • Types - course & curriculum development, textbook reviews • Topics - Policy, Cultural competence, advocacy • Research methods - epidemiology, assessment, program evaluation, qualitative methods (c) University of Rochester

20. Expanding ATMCH Membership-Conclusions • Significant amount of MCH teaching is occurring among teachers OUTSIDE of schools of public health (especially nursing and medicine) • Interests differ between current and non/potential members • Types of teaching • Topics for assistance • Research methods - Members > Non (c) University of Rochester

21. Continuing Education Institute-Conclusions • Need exists • Higher familiarity with than use of MCH competencies in MCH teaching • Interest exists among both current and potential members ( 83%, 73%) • Proposed CE Topics match needs of members and potential members (c) University of Rochester

22. Graduate MCH Education:An ATMCH Survey Molly McNulty, JD Assistant Professor of Public Health Practice Cynthia Childs, MFA MPH Candidate Department of Community & Preventive Medicine University of Rochester School of Medicine molly_mcnulty@urmc.rochester.edu 3 March 2002