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ABSTRACT

This article describes the development of a curriculum for health services administrators in Cracow in Poland from the fall of 1991 through the spring of 1993. The guiding principles behind the curriculum development were community-oriented and problem and competency-based education. The author coined the term competency-based education during his tenure at Johns Hopkins University, where he championed new developments in postgraduate public health education while there. The article describes the modus operandi of the developmental work leading to a highly successful program, where nearly half of the student body was hired out of the program halfway through it due to their demonstrated value in the local institutions during their practicums. Such students were offered part-time completion of the program, which nearly all participated in.

Keywords: Health services, administration, education, problem-based learning, competency-based learning, community-oriented education, Poland