Training needs of the health emergency professionals in centers for disease control and prevention / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the training needs of health emergency professionals in centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) ,and to provide evidence for making training plan .Methods Totally 66 health emergency professionals who par‐ticipated in health emergency training class of CDC were surveyed with questionnaires in July ,2014 .The items included training content ,mode ,time ,teachers ,assessment forms and graduation way .Results Forty one persons (62 .12% of all subjects) selected health emergency disposal of all kinds of emergencies as the training contents ,and case analysis as the training mode .There were no statistical significances for the differences of the proportions of the professional staffs between different genders ,education levels ,ti‐tles ,categories and agencies (P>0 .05) .52 persons (78 .79% ) considered that training frequency of 1-2 times per year was appro‐priate ,and 53 persons (80 .30% ) considered that the most appropriate duration for each training was 2 -3 days .Domestic experts as a training teacher had the highest proportion (56 .06% ) ,followed by health emergency management cadres (34 .85% ) ,and foreign experts (6 .06% ) .The proportion of selecting university professor as a training teacher was lowest (3 .03% ) .71 .21% (47 persons) selected analog dealing with practical problems as assessment form ,and 71 .21% (47 persons) selected granting credits as graduation way .Gender and agencies were two important influencing factors for selecting different graduation ways (P< 0 .05) . Conclusion Training program of health emergency should be made according to the training needs .Appropriate training content and form should be selected in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of training ,and to improve the ability of the health e‐mergency professionals .