Agenda Item

Discussion

Review of notes from September call

No comments.

Review of draft tool to report and monitor number and characteristics of trainees from under-represented population groups and/or communities.

The goal of the MCH training programs is for enrollees to “broadly represent the population”. A draft instrument developed from workgroup discussion was shared with workgroup members prior to today’s call. Several suggestions were made for rewording of aspects of the tool to better get at the information needed in a sensitive fashion. These included asking about economically disadvantaged background and disability status. The group encouraged the construct questions in a yes/no format as much as possible.

Review of draft tool to gather information from graduates regarding post graduation work in an underserved policy, practice, or geographic area.

Our goal is to identify trainees from ‘underrepresented” groups to measure progress on obtaining a trainee pool that does broadly represent the population. Suggestions were made to alter some language to describe under-served geographic area, and to add examples of other “under-served groups” and policy issues.

Overarching Issues

Relevant to both tools is the issue of differentiating long/medium/short term grantees for data collection purposes. It may be more difficult to collect data from short-termers than long-termers. There is a lack of clarity about the time boundaries for these groups.

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