Workshop for officers of the Population Welfare Program

 
Instructional methods and Evaluation of training Workshop
 
An overview

 

The workshop has been specially organized in response to a request received from the Ministry of Population Welfare (MPW), Islamabad. It is scheduled for December 10 to 15, 2007 at the CPSP Karachi.

 

The workshop is planned as an intensive, one week (6-day) learning opportunity for physicians who are decision-makers, managers, service providers, or trainers and educators in the National Population Welfare Program.

About 15 participants are expected to attend.

 

The workshop is aimed at:.

·                    Developing awareness of current educational concepts

·                    Facilitating the application of knowledge acquired from the workshop to participants’ own responsibilities.

 

Each session has specific objectives.

 

The approach of the workshop is participatory, based on principles of adult, experiential learning, and focused on promoting interaction between participants and facilitators. Opportunity for in depth discussion is to be provided as well as for expression of the participant’s own views acquired through job related and personal experience.

 

The methodology is a combination of

  • Problem solving exercises and
  • Small and large group discussions.

 

Well known specialists in medical education have been invited as facilitators to conduct various sessions of the workshop.

 

  • Topics include
  • Principles of learning;
  • Developing a training program;
  • Systems approach;
  • Taxonomy of educational objectives;
  • Developing a table of specifications (TOS);
  • Writing objectives;
  • Selecting Instructional Strategies based on TOS;
  • Using Instructional Strategies;
  • Teaching procedural skills;
  • Principles of quality assessment and assessment techniques;
  • Assessing knowledge;
  • Assessing procedural skills;
  • Introduction to OSCE;
  • Evaluation  of a training program and principles of evaluation;
  • Uses of evaluation;
  • Common methods of evaluation;
  • Tools for evaluation; and
  • Importance of feedback in training.

 

At the conclusion of the workshop a certificate will be awarded to each participant.