Select a section: Background on Provider Education Systems Evidence on Provider Education Systems Example Provider Education Systems Action Steps to Create and Implement Provider Education Systems Tools and Resources for Provider Education Systems Evaluation of Provider Education Systems You can visit Evaluation on the navigation bar below for general information on evaluation. This section is designed to add to this general information by giving you special considerations for evaluating provider education systems.

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Work with health care providers to develop the provider education system training curriculum through participatory approaches or focus groups. It can be very difficult to evaluate provider education systems as they are usually part of a larger project with other intervention strategies. Therefore, changes in behavior, knowledge, attitudes, or other individual factors may be a result of one or a combination of strategies.

Provider education systems may include documentation of attendance at the training sessions, ability to carry out assignments or activities, recall or memory of what information was provided to the participant, how much time was spent on different training components, whether the training changed policies or practices related to the health care provider or their agency/organization, and the health care provider’s satisfaction with the information exchange.

Furthermore, you could evaluate the extent to which the individuals experienced any changes in their visits with the health care provider and their level of satisfaction with the visits, what information they were able to recall, changes in knowledge, changes in attitudes, actions the participant has taken as a result of information provided or changes in behavior.

Sharing Your Work

The following questions have been provided to help guide the discussion you have with your partners about sharing your work with others:

• What is the goal of sharing our work? What action do we want others to take?
• Which group needs to take action right now? Which group is the primary audience at this moment?
• What does this audience care about? What values do we share with this audience?
• What is our message to this audience? What do they need to hear to take action?
• What media outlets does our audience follow? Which newspapers do they read? Which radio stations do they listen to? Which television newscasts do they watch?
• Who are our opponents?
• What is their message to our audience?