Teaching Clinicians Infection Prevention (Nov 2024)

Course Overview 

The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s intermediate module, Teaching Clinicians Infection Prevention Nov 2024, provides healthcare educators with strategies to develop and deliver effective infection prevention training for clinicians. This course reviews adult learning theories, including self-directed learning and social cognitive theory, and discusses how to create engaging, targeted educational content that resonates with clinical audiences.

Target Audience

Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are or will be directly involved in infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals who have participated in and gained considerable knowledge through specialized infection and control training and have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control concepts.

Audience examples: Intermediate to Proficient Infection Preventionist, Intermediate to Proficient HAI/AR/IPC staff, Intermediate to Proficient Healthcare/Public Health Epidemiologist, Infectious Disease /Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Pharmacist.

Overall Learning Objectives

• Review learning theories for adult learning and educational design

• Apply theory to create targeted content for a clinician audience

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing education (CE) credit is not available for this course.

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