Student Public Health Conference, 15th June 2016 In Stockport, we have always been very keen to engage our healthcare students in public health initiatives and ensure they are well-informed about the importance of maintaining a health of their role. ‘public mindset’ at all times, as an integral part As part of this agenda, a new initiative was recently planned in partnership with Stockport MBC and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which involved delivering a Health pre-registration health care students on placement in ‘Public Conference’, for Stockport. The event was a great success, with 38 healthcare students attending and was excellently evaluated. The conference provided a wonderful opportunity for the students to learn more about public health services in Stockport and to explore their role in promoting health and sign-posting to services. In the afternoon, we held a ‘market-stall’ event, where a range of different public health staff attended and promoted their services. As part of the event, over 70 public health short ½ day or 1 day which ‘spoke placements’, were promoted, students were then able to book onto. This enabled the students to see public health ‘in in Stockport and helped them to link theory to real-life practice. action’ During the event, the students and to assess the also completed ‘pre’ ‘post’ questionnaires, and knowledge, and these scores rose from an average of 43% to students’ confidence 68%, which was a great result. The students also commented:- market-stall event was amazing! with really good opportunities” “The now have the knowledge to make a difference” “I I loved it! Very informative” “Fantastic, was very informative and I loved the opportunity to maintain this learning via the “It spoke placements”
Student Public Health Conference, 15th June 2016 In Stockport, we have always been very keen to engage our healthcare students in public health initiatives and ensure they are well-informed about the importance of maintaining a ‘public health mindset’ at all times, as an integral part of their role. As part of this agenda, a new initiative was recently planned in partnership with Stockport MBC and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which involved delivering a ‘Public Health Conference’, for pre-registration health care students on placement in Stockport. The event was a great success, with 38 healthcare students attending and was excellently evaluated. The conference provided a wonderful opportunity for the students to learn more about public health services in Stockport and to explore their role in promoting health and sign-posting to services. In the afternoon, we held a ‘market-stall’ event, where a range of different public health staff attended and promoted their services. As part of the event, over 70 public health short ½ day or 1 day ‘spoke placements’, were promoted, which students were then able to book onto. This enabled the students to see public health ‘in action’ in Stockport and helped them to link theory to real-life practice. During the event, the students also completed ‘pre’ and ‘post’ questionnaires, to assess the students’ confidence and knowledge, and these scores rose from an average of 43% to 68%, which was a great result. The students also commented:- “The market-stall event was amazing! with really good opportunities” “I now have the knowledge to make a difference” “Fantastic, I loved it! Very informative” “It was very informative and I loved the opportunity to maintain this learning via the spoke placements”
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