Continuing education
Continuing education is the foundation of assuring a competent workforce in Public Health — Seattle & King County. This resource page is offered as a link to learning events and tools that support your work and professional interests. If you have further suggestions for sites that offer pertinent learning activities, please feel free to contact us.
Please note that these external links are a collection of continuing education resources submitted by Public Health staff and do not constitute endorsements by King County.
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Resources for all Public Health staff |
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- CDC Prevention Research Centers Training Catalog
PRCs bridge academic study and practical, community application of information on health promotion and disease prevention.
- CDC Learning Connection: CDC Train
CDC TRAIN is a national learning network to access a wide range of public health learning products and opportunities.
- Heal-WA: Health Evidence Resource for Washington State
Access to these resources is limited to members of the following groups of health care professionals who are licensed to practice in Washington State: Chiropractors, East Asian Medicine Practitioners, Massage Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Naturopathic Physicians, Optometrists, Osteopathic Physicians and Osteopathic Physician Assistants, Physicians and Physician Assistants, Podiatrists, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Social Workers. More information.
- National Library of Medicine: PubMed Tutorial
Learn how to use the PubMed journal literature search system more effectively.
- MyNCBI
My NCBI saves searches and results from multiple National Center for Biotechnology databases (including PubMed), and features an option to automatically update and e-mail search results from your saved searches. My NCBI users can save their citations (journal articles, books, meetings, patents and presentations) in My Bibliography and manage peer review article compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. My NCBI includes additional features for filtering search results, highlighting search terms, and setting LinkOut, Document Delivery Service and Outside Tool preferences.
- Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
- Quantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Research
Free public health course that is an online adaptation of material from the Harvard School of Public Health's classes in epidemiology and biostatistics. Classes start October 15, 2012.
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Administrators and clerical staff |
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Epidemiologists and social research scientists |
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