Innovative teaching in infection prevention and control and infectious diseases education: testing and investigation of student perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Many curricula promote frontal teaching approaches, potentially decreasing interaction and motivation - also within infection prevention & control and infectious diseases (IPC/ID). We aimed to investigate the implementation of three innovative teaching methods (ITM) within IPC/ID education: game-based learning (GBL), peer-teaching (PT) and misinformation detection (MID).

Methods

Multi-phase study involving third-year medical students was conducted. Phase-1 included a cross-sectional survey, assessing previous ITM-experience and interest to participate in phase-2, where the students were divided into teams. Each team prepared a video covering an IPC/ID-topic with deliberately placed misinformation, which had to be identified and corrected by the opposing team, followe

SUBMITTER: Kaba HEJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11825523 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature