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Alignment Of Epidemiology Practice And Academic Competencies Through Effective Collaboration, Kimberly R. Glenn, Paula R. Masters, Megan Quinn Apr 2016

Alignment Of Epidemiology Practice And Academic Competencies Through Effective Collaboration, Kimberly R. Glenn, Paula R. Masters, Megan Quinn

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Background: Online learning has recently garnered increased attention as technology use in the classroom grows. However, most of the published approaches regarding this topic in postgraduate education centers on clinical environments. Models of partnerships between applied public health agencies and academic centers to produce mutually beneficial online learning opportunities for graduate-level public health courses have not been explored in the literature.

Methods: East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) partnered to build three online, asynchronous epidemiology modules for an interdisciplinary audience of graduate students. The goals of the modules were to (1) introduce students to …