THE VAXED PROJECT: an assessment of immunization education in Canadian health professional programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowledge & attitudes of healthcare providers (HCP) have significant impact on frequency with which vaccines are offered & accepted but many HCP are ill equipped to make informed recommendations about vaccine merits & risks. We performed an assessment of the educational needs of trainees regarding immunization and used the information thus ascertained to develop multi-faceted, evaluable, educational tools which can be integrated into formal education curricula.

Methods

(i) A questionnaire was sent to all Canadian nursing, medical & pharmacy schools to assess immunization-related curriculum content (ii) A 77-item web-based, validated questionnaire was emailed to final-year students in medicine, nursing, & pharmacy at two universities in Nova Scotia, Canada to asses

SUBMITTER: Pelly LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3002370 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature