Competency-based education and training for Community Health Workers: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a critical role in supporting the delivery of health services globally. Competency-based learning programs can improve the transfer of learning to practice. This scoping review aims to characterize the published literature on competency-based education as an instructional and curricular strategy in community health worker training programs. We conducted a scoping review of the literature to identify how, by who, and in what ways CHWs are trained using competency-based education; and to characterize the extent of available evidence, as well as the gaps in that evidence.

Methods

We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature on CHW competency-based education and training published between January 2010 to March 2023, drawin

SUBMITTER: Sultan MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11834664 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature