Health Literacy Leadership Institute

This advanced professional development opportunity looks at improving the health literacy skills of health professionals and consumers at every level. Peer learning is a core component of the Institute’s educational approach. Participants work on an educational project of their choice and receive feedback from instructors highly regarded for their health literacy curriculum development work in medical education and adult literacy, and from each other. The result is a final product that is current, comprehensive, informed by research, and reflective of best practice. 

The Institute will be held over five consecutive days June 10 – 14, 2013, from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm at Tufts University School of Medicine in Downtown Boston. For more information and to register, visit http://healthliteracyleadership.com  or contact the course director at 781-835-6488 or sabrina@kurtz-rossi.com.

This program is offered as part of the Tufts School of Medicine Health Communication Summer Institute 2013 http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/MS-Health-Communication-Microsite/Health-Comm-Summer-Institute which includes two other courses of interest: Mobile Health Design (online) http://mobilehealthdesign.wordpress.com/ and Digital Strategies for Health Communication http://digitalstrategiesforhealth.wordpress.com/.    

 

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I would highly recommend attending the Health Literacy Leadership Institute. I attended last summer, and I came away with a lot of practical ideas and inspiration to start new projects at my organization. The focused time away from the office allowed me to create a comprehensive training plan for our organization, which we have since successfully put into practice. I also come away with an amazing network of professionals that have provided support and encouragement in a variety of ways.

I want to help explain this unique Advanced Professional Development opportunity. It is geared to people who are highly familiar with health literacy and are working on developing health literacy trainings or curricula for either the general public or for health care staff and professionals.

During the five days, you will hear from leaders in the field and past participants in the Institute.  See the Daily schedule below, which addresses the step-by-step process of developing and evaluating a heatlh literacy curricula.

You will begin the week with your own specific curriculum or training project that you are already working on or about to start. During the week, you will have homework and benchmarks to complete in order to move your project toward a solid plan. At the end of the week, you will present your plan and get peer feedback.

This is a training where your skills are shared and valued, and you learn in a truly community-based environment.

Yes, it's a big time commitment! But here is why it may be worth it:

  • If you are designing and developing a training or curricula, this will help you to learn how to do it in a thoughtful, well-informed way, using evidence-based methodology and peer review.
  • It will also allow you to accomplish a lot of work in this one-week period. People last year said that having the time away from their workplace to dedicate to designing this training or curricula made it possible for them to do far more work on it than they would be able to do in their office. (It is really an intensive working training rather than one to take notes and think about for later... you come away with a real product!)
  • It builds close relationships with other health literacy professionals working in different states and a variety of settings, but all working towards similar goals.
DayDateTopicPre-sessionSun, 6/9/13Overview of Health Literacy Principles (Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, M.Ed.)

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Mon, 6/10/13

Health Literacy Needs and Competencies (Cliff Coleman, M.D. M.P.H.)

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Tue, 6/11/13Curriculum Design and Adult Learning Theory (Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, M.Ed.)

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Wed, 6/12/13Methods for Evaluating Learning Gains (Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D.)

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Thur, 6/13/13Health Literacy Teaching and Training Models (Julie McKinney, M.S.)

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Fri, 6/14/13Peer Presentations and Feedback

For more info, go to: http://healthliteracyleadership.com/

I would love to hear from some of last year's participants to hear your thoughts about this Institute!

I attended the Health Literacy Leadership Institute in 2012 and was very pleased with my experience. As Health Literacy Program Manager at the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, I develop community-based health literacy interventions and quality-improvement training and consulting for hospitals and clinics. The Institute was an informative and engaging week that was rooted in excellent content and facilitated by top leaders in the field. Moreover, I developed lasting relationships with peers doing innovative health literacy work in multiple disciplines across the US, and was able to tap into their knowledge and experiences throughout and now after the Institute.

-Peter Morrison

Health Literacy Program Manager

Health Literacy Forward, Literacy Coalition of Central Texas

pmorrison@willread.org

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2013 Health Literacy Leadership Institute

Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston Campus

June 10 - 14, 2013

This one-week intensive program prepares participants to:

** Identify health literacy as an organizational/systems problem that includes the skills of health care professionals and consumers.

** Name audience-specific health literacy competencies and the curriculum content to address those competencies.

** Write measurable health literacy learning objectives and an evaluation plan that includes outcome and process measures.

** Outline a health literacy curriculum or educational program that is current, comprehensive, informed by research, and reflective of best practice.