"A satellite primer on tuberculosis:" a collaboration in distance education.
"A Satellite Primer on Tuberculosis" was offered as a distance-based certificate course on tuberculosis (TB) fundamentals to a national audience of over 5,000 individuals. The course was a collaborative effort of a school of public health, a state health department, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instruction was provided through print-based self-study modules that were complemented by live, interactive satellite conferences. Course completers, over 70 percent of whom were nurses and employees of public health departments, scored significantly higher on a course posttest than on a pretest, and the vast majority felt the course provided valuable training.
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Department of Epidemiology and International Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, USA.
Walton
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Smith
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Lincoln
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Galvin
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Tryon
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Hayden
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McMacken
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Ring
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Potts
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Edmondson
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D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D017215:Satellite Communications; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States