COLLABORATION OF YEARLY DIDACTIC INFECTION CONTROL EDUCATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS BETWEEN QUEENS UNIV

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COLLABORATION OF YEARLY DIDACTIC INFECTION
CONTROL EDUCATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS BETWEEN
QUEENS UNIVERSITY AND AFFLIATED TEACHING
HOSPITALS IN KINGSTON
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Gauthier J1, Poole K1, Zoutman D2, Moffatt S2,
Allen J3, Cooper S3, Knapp A1,4, Davis A5,
Campbell D1

• 1. Providence Care
• 2. Queens University
• 3. South Eastern Ontario Infection Control
  Network
• 4. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington
  Public Health
• 5. Kingston General Hospital

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Rationale

• Building Routine Practices into students
  clinical habits as they learn physical assessment
  would help embed the practices into their
  clinical behaviours

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Rationale

• In order for students to appropriately liaise
  with the in-patient population for clinical
  learning, they had to be able to practice
  appropriate infection control practices

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Collaborative Project

• Clinical Skills Program, School of Medicine,
  Queens University
• First Clinical Skills Rotation
• Blood Pressure
• Pulse

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Collaborative Project

• Kingston Hospitals Infection Control team
• 3 Hospitals currently 8 IPCPs
• Regional Infection Control Network (SEOICN)
• Public Health Communicable Disease Nurses

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Project

• Educate students as a class, but in small groups
• 2 hour session for 100 students
• 50 per hour
• Groups of 10 with an IPCP (5 IPCP required)

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First Year Students

• Within first month of classes
• 10 minutes as group of 50 for overview in lecture
  format
• 35 40 minutes with an IPCP in small group
  format to review
• Routine Practices
• Hand washing
• Practical demonstration

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1st Year
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Second Year Students - 2008

• This group had seen us last year for hand hygiene
• This year Additional Precautions
• Gown and gloves and mask types
• Fit testing for respirators was done elsewhere
• Added to their Observed Standardized Clinical
  Exam (OSCE) as a station they MUST pass

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2nd Year
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Third Year Students

• Had received traditional training to this point
• Needed Hand Hygiene update
• Gown donning and doffing
• Added as test station for OSCE
• Used IPCP as preceptor

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All Classes

• Positive Feedback!
• Very informative
• Practical information

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Still to Come

• Video recording of techniques for posting on
  medical student website
• This request for a video to review was frequent
  (especially during OSCE)
• Demonstrates positive and negative examples

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Summary

• Collaboration between Queens Clinical Skills
  Program - School of Medicine, Kingston Hospitals
  Infection Control Services, South Eastern Ontario
  Infection Control Network and Kingston Frontenac
  Lennox Addington Public Health was a success
  and will be an ongoing initiative