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California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program
Case investigation (CI) and contact tracing (CT) are key to containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread community transmission necessitates a large, diverse workforce with specialized knowledge and skills. The University of California, San Francisco and Los Angeles partnered with the California Dep...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8381767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.706697 |
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author | Brickley, Debbie B. Forster, Maeve Alonis, Amelia Antonyan, Elizabeth Chen, Lisa DiGiammarino, Alicia Dorian, Alina Dunn, Caitlin Gandelman, Alice Grasso, Mike Kiureghian, Alice Maher, Andrew D. Malan, Hannah Mejia, Patricia Peare, Anna Prelip, Michael Shafir, Shira White, Karen Willard-Grace, Rachel Reid, Michael |
author_facet | Brickley, Debbie B. Forster, Maeve Alonis, Amelia Antonyan, Elizabeth Chen, Lisa DiGiammarino, Alicia Dorian, Alina Dunn, Caitlin Gandelman, Alice Grasso, Mike Kiureghian, Alice Maher, Andrew D. Malan, Hannah Mejia, Patricia Peare, Anna Prelip, Michael Shafir, Shira White, Karen Willard-Grace, Rachel Reid, Michael |
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description | Case investigation (CI) and contact tracing (CT) are key to containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread community transmission necessitates a large, diverse workforce with specialized knowledge and skills. The University of California, San Francisco and Los Angeles partnered with the California Department of Public Health to rapidly mobilize and train a CI/CT workforce. In April through August 2020, a team of public health practitioners and health educators constructed a training program to enable learners from diverse backgrounds to quickly acquire the competencies necessary to function effectively as CIs and CTs. Between April 27 and May 5, the team undertook a curriculum design sprint by performing a needs assessment, determining relevant goals and objectives, and developing content. The initial four-day curriculum consisted of 13 hours of synchronous live web meetings and 7 hours of asynchronous, self-directed study. Educational content emphasized the principles of COVID-19 exposure, infectious period, isolation and quarantine guidelines and the importance of prevention and control interventions. A priority was equipping learners with skills in rapport building and health coaching through facilitated web-based small group skill development sessions. The training was piloted among 31 learners and subsequently expanded to an average weekly audience of 520 persons statewide starting May 7, reaching 7,499 unique enrollees by August 31. Capacity to scale and sustain the training program was afforded by the UCLA Extension Canvas learning management system. Repeated iteration of content and format was undertaken based on feedback from learners, facilitators, and public health and community-based partners. It is feasible to rapidly train and deploy a large workforce to perform CI and CT. Interactive skills-based training with opportunity for practice and feedback are essential to develop independent, high-performing CIs and CTs. Rigorous evaluation will continue to monitor quality measures to improve the training experience and outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-83817672021-08-24 California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program Brickley, Debbie B. Forster, Maeve Alonis, Amelia Antonyan, Elizabeth Chen, Lisa DiGiammarino, Alicia Dorian, Alina Dunn, Caitlin Gandelman, Alice Grasso, Mike Kiureghian, Alice Maher, Andrew D. Malan, Hannah Mejia, Patricia Peare, Anna Prelip, Michael Shafir, Shira White, Karen Willard-Grace, Rachel Reid, Michael Front Public Health Public Health Case investigation (CI) and contact tracing (CT) are key to containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread community transmission necessitates a large, diverse workforce with specialized knowledge and skills. The University of California, San Francisco and Los Angeles partnered with the California Department of Public Health to rapidly mobilize and train a CI/CT workforce. In April through August 2020, a team of public health practitioners and health educators constructed a training program to enable learners from diverse backgrounds to quickly acquire the competencies necessary to function effectively as CIs and CTs. Between April 27 and May 5, the team undertook a curriculum design sprint by performing a needs assessment, determining relevant goals and objectives, and developing content. The initial four-day curriculum consisted of 13 hours of synchronous live web meetings and 7 hours of asynchronous, self-directed study. Educational content emphasized the principles of COVID-19 exposure, infectious period, isolation and quarantine guidelines and the importance of prevention and control interventions. A priority was equipping learners with skills in rapport building and health coaching through facilitated web-based small group skill development sessions. The training was piloted among 31 learners and subsequently expanded to an average weekly audience of 520 persons statewide starting May 7, reaching 7,499 unique enrollees by August 31. Capacity to scale and sustain the training program was afforded by the UCLA Extension Canvas learning management system. Repeated iteration of content and format was undertaken based on feedback from learners, facilitators, and public health and community-based partners. It is feasible to rapidly train and deploy a large workforce to perform CI and CT. Interactive skills-based training with opportunity for practice and feedback are essential to develop independent, high-performing CIs and CTs. Rigorous evaluation will continue to monitor quality measures to improve the training experience and outcomes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8381767/ /pubmed/34434915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.706697 Text en Copyright © 2021 Brickley, Forster, Alonis, Antonyan, Chen, DiGiammarino, Dorian, Dunn, Gandelman, Grasso, Kiureghian, Maher, Malan, Mejia, Peare, Prelip, Shafir, White, Willard-Grace and Reid. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Brickley, Debbie B. Forster, Maeve Alonis, Amelia Antonyan, Elizabeth Chen, Lisa DiGiammarino, Alicia Dorian, Alina Dunn, Caitlin Gandelman, Alice Grasso, Mike Kiureghian, Alice Maher, Andrew D. Malan, Hannah Mejia, Patricia Peare, Anna Prelip, Michael Shafir, Shira White, Karen Willard-Grace, Rachel Reid, Michael California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program |
title | California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program |
title_full | California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program |
title_fullStr | California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program |
title_full_unstemmed | California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program |
title_short | California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program |
title_sort | california's covid-19 virtual training academy: rapid scale-up of a statewide contact tracing and case investigation workforce training program |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8381767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.706697 |
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