The Skills Enhancement for Public Health Program is pleased to announce that registration for the winter  2013 session of  Skills Online is now open.  Registration will close on December 16th, 2012.  The  session start date is January 14th, 2013 for all facilitated modules.

For more  information, including detailed descriptions of current modules, please visit www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/skills.

You can register online at: www.skillsonline.ca

Program Changes
As you may be aware, there are several changes to the Skills Online program.  In the past, Skills Online modules had to cap registration numbers, and required pre-requisites for all of the modules.  Beginning  this session, Skills Online will introduce the following changes to the  program:

• reduced wait lists for each learning module;
• fewer prerequisites;
• low-cost administration fee for facilitated modules ($75 – $175),
• self-directed modules continue to be offered at no cost;
• modules are mapped to the Core Competencies for Public Health in
• Canada; and,
• new modules in development to be launched in 2013 and beyond (Privacy and Confidentiality for Public HealthPractitioners, Health Literacy, Introduction to Core Competencies, and Introduction to Evaluation).

These changes will allow more learners to participate in the Skills Online program, as well as help to upport sustainability of the program and  ongoing improvement and expansion of the modules being offered.

Instructions for payment are provided during the registration process.

Modules available this session:
EPI 1:          Basic Epidemiological Concepts
EPI 2:          Measurement of Health Status
EPI 3:          Descriptive Epidemiologic Methods
APP 1:         Outbreak Investigation and Management
APP 2:         Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
APP 3:         Applied Epidemiology: Injuries
PHP 2:         Evidence Based Public Health Practice
STA 1:          Introduction to Biostatistics
SUR 1:         Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
SUR 2:         Communicating Data Effectively

The Skills Enhancement for Public Health program offers two self-directed Skills Online modules:

• Introduction to Public Health
• Introduction to Literature Searching

These two modules are unfacilitated and completely self-directed; participants work through the material at their own pace. Participants receive a certificate from the Public Health Agency of Canada upon   successful completion of the modules.