Education and Training

KEVRIC has supported the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Division of Health Education, by providing technical recommendations and guidance to ATSDR's public health network partners (i.e., State and local health organizations) on continuing medical education and credits in environmental health.

KEVRIC provided comprehensive services to the National Center for Health Statistics, Applied Statistics Training Institute, in support of its program to train State and local public health professionals in public health statistical methods

For the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), KEVRIC created a complete training program for the FEMA to support the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). KEVRIC completed all IFMIS course design and development phases, including creation of the plan of instruction, the instructor's guide, and evaluation instruments for the four-and-a-half day course.

This project featured education course development; integrated, electronic, classroom instruction; educational testing; course/instructor evaluation; and design, writing, formatting, and production of over 300 pages of educational training materials.

In addition, KEVRIC manages and operates a computer laboratory for the FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI) programs, which is designed to deliver emergency management training for on-site and home-study programs. The laboratory supports EMI's curriculum and the FEMA program office's special training activities.

KEVRIC has the resources to write technical training manuals and design courses for both agency- specific and off-the-shelf software. Our staff of information management specialists, information technology professionals, technical editors, and health and environmental specialists provide the knowledge base necessary for developing quality, instructional materials and courses.

KEVRIC is also on the forefront of exploring the use of current and emerging interactive technology in health communications and education programs. Our staff developed a plan for an Occupational Health and Safety Learning Center (OHSLC), to be housed at the NIOSH research facilities in Morgantown, West Virginia. The purpose of the proposed learning center is to communicate occupational health and safety messages to adolescents using a variety of "edutainment" media, such as immersion virtual reality, game format, and the Internet.