Operating room technician trainees teach medical students - an inter-professional peer teaching approach for infection prevention strategies in the operation room.

ABSTRACT: Background:Education is a cornerstone strategy to prevent health-associated infections. Trainings benefit from being interactive, simulation-based, team-orientated, and early in professional socialization. We conceived an innovative inter-professional peer-teaching module with operating room technician trainees (ORTT) teaching infection prevention behavior in the operating room (OR) to medical students (MDS). Methods:ORTT delivered a 2-h teaching module to small groups of MDS in a simulated OR setting with 4 posts: 'entering OR'; 'surgical hand disinfection'; 'dressing up for surgery and preparing a surgical field', 'debriefing'. MDS and ORTT evaluated module features and teaching quality through 2 specific questionnaires. Structured field notes by education specialist observers were analy

SUBMITTER: Breckwoldt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6518629 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature