Nieman L Z, Rutenberg C L, Levison S P, Kuzma M A, Rudnitsky G, Beck-Weiss L
Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Office for Faculty Affairs, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
J Womens Health. 1997 Feb;6(1):63-71. doi: 10.1089/jwh.1997.6.63.
Explicitly incorporating women's health into the medical school curriculum is a relatively new process for educators. Moreover, until recently, no standard definition of women's health had been developed. Because there are no specific evaluation designs for women's health programs, evaluators must adapt existing evaluation concepts to fit the needs of the program. Evaluation is a broad concept that includes assessments of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to reach decisions about program improvements. The purpose of this article is to describe methods of evaluating women's health programs, including how to tailor basic evaluation concepts to the program. Several areas of women's health programming are discussed as background to creating the innovative design for this new program evaluation. An example of an evaluation design for a totally integrated women's health curriculum is presented, including some preliminary data and a discussion of strategies for overcoming obstacles to initiating women's health evaluations.
将女性健康明确纳入医学院课程对教育工作者来说是一个相对较新的过程。此外，直到最近，还没有形成女性健康的标准定义。由于没有针对女性健康项目的具体评估设计，评估人员必须调整现有的评估概念以适应项目需求。评估是一个广泛的概念，包括对知识、技能和态度的评估，以便就项目改进做出决策。本文的目的是描述评估女性健康项目的方法，包括如何使基本评估概念适合该项目。作为为这个新的项目评估创建创新设计的背景，讨论了女性健康规划的几个领域。给出了一个完全综合的女性健康课程评估设计的例子，包括一些初步数据以及对启动女性健康评估的障碍克服策略的讨论。
