Title: The Advanced Credential for Health Education Specialists: A Seven-Year Project.
Abstract:The only advanced credential exam for health educators, The Master Certifi ed Health Education Specialist (MCHES), involved a seven-year process. The process began in December 2004, with the informati...The only advanced credential exam for health educators, The Master Certifi ed Health Education Specialist (MCHES), involved a seven-year process. The process began in December 2004, with the information from the Competency Update Project (CUP) report that health educators practice at entryand advanced-levels of practice. In October 2011, the date of the fi rst MCHES exam, the process will be complete. Presented in this paper are the decisions and steps the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) made from 2004 to 2011 to bring advanced-level certifi cation to health education specialists. Birth of the Advanced Credential The idea of advanced credentialing was fi rst introduced by Helen Cleary more than 20 years ago. Recently, Cleary was quoted as saying, “We [those involved early with entrylevel Certifi ed Health Education Specialist (CHES) credentialing] anticipated that the advanced credential, the MCHES, would be needed...” (Rehrig, 2009, p. 5). Presented in this paper are the events, decisions, and steps made by NCHEC, from 2004 to the present, to birth the Master Certifi ed Health Education Specialist (MCHES) advanced credential.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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