Title: Rocky Mountain Public Health Education Consortium

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Section/SPIG: Maternal and Child Health

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Are you interested in continuing education in MCH? The Rocky Mountain Public Health Education Consortium (RMPHEC) is a consortium of academic and practice partners in the Rocky Mountain and frontier west. The overall purpose of this consortium is to increase the leadership skills of MCH professionals in the Rocky Mountain region and surrounding areas by facilitating the timely transfer of new information and research findings related to MCH, and updating and improving the knowledge and skills of the MCH workforce using a variety of educational formats and offerings.

Collaborators of the RMPHEC include graduate public health programs at University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, University of Utah, and Utah State University. Other collaborators include local, state and tribal MCH practitioners and programs, LENDs/UCEDDs and MCH/CSHCN Agencies/Associations.

The following are active programs of the RMPHEC:

• Annual MCH Summer Institute (in Tucson, July 2006)


• MCH Certificate Program (post-baccalaureate traineeship)


• MCH Continuing Education – Distance Learning Opportunities

The RMPHEC Web site includes links to many distance learning opportunities, including those developed by the Consortium. The overall aim of the newest RMPHEC project based at University of Alaska Anchorage is to utilize distance learning methods to build leadership capacity and support community based systems of care to serve the needs of geographically isolated MCH public health practitioners.

This new CE project will provide a unique focus and content specifically tailored to meet the continuing education needs of those serving ethnically diverse frontier, border and tribal areas using innovative problem-based methods reflective of the issues of the Rocky Mountain west. For more information about RMPHEC, see our Web site at <http://services.tacc.utah.edu/rmphec>. For more information about the new distance learning project, contact Dr. Rhonda Johnson at <afrmj@uaa.alaska.edu> or Bridget McCleskey at <confcoor@gci.net>.