key: cord-0963358-8doph45w
authors: Rannikko, Juha; Hakkarainen, Kati
title: COVID-19 is here to stay: How to teach protection
date: 2022-05-07
journal: J Hosp Infect
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2022.04.013
sha: 126a92b59c1f8a9601ab5e27bb13a4f2936e4fe6
doc_id: 963358
cord_uid: 8doph45w

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Healthcare students and workers should be taught how to protect both themselves and patients from all possible nosocomial microbes, including multidrug-resistant bacteria, tuberculosis, and SARS-CoV-2. Teaching of infection control measures, such as contact precautions or airborne isolation measures, should include practical training before contacting real patients.

In Finland, Tampere University medical faculty introduced team-based learning (TBL) as a method of infection control measures teaching in 2016. TBL is a small group learning method consisting of sequential steps that contain advance self-study, testing, tasks, and feedback [1] . It has increasingly been implemented in medical education. At the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the contents of this teaching were reshaped. Our current version of infection control measures TBL includes the following steps:

1. The students receive the learning outcomes and preparation material online two weeks before the session. The material includes, for example, literature regarding multidrugresistant microbes, links to the webpages of the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare that oversees national disease prevention and control, and links to the guidelines and other material, including videos and series of images by our local hospital infection control unit.

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