Examples of Learning Objectives

EXAMPLE FOR ABSTRACT ADDRESSING WORKFORCE TRAINING
From a 2005 PGHC Presentation on the Health Leaders Achieving Today-Tomorrow’s Excellence (HLATTE) training program, developed though a partnership between CDC’s Sustainable Management Development Program (SMDP) and the University of Guam

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Explain how a lack of management capacity contributes to poor outcomes despite highly effective public health interventions
2. Identify six core competency areas for public health managers
3. Summarize the CDC/SMDP strategy for sustainable public health management development

EXAMPLE FOR ABSTRACT ADDRESSING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
From a 2005 PGHC Presentation under the title of Evidence-based Public Health: "Putting Science into Practice”

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Define evidence-based public health
2. Describe how scientific evidence is used to select public health programs or policies
3. Provide examples of successful EBPH programs and how these principles apply in the Pacific Region

EXAMPLE FOR ABSTRACT ADDRESSING EMERGING HEALTH ISSUES
From a 2005 PGHC Presentation addressing the problem of excessive weight gain during pregnancy as a contributing factor for obesity in women

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Describe ethnic differences in prenatal weight gain
2. Identify ethnic differences in post-partum weight retention
3. Describe the major risk for post-partum weight retention