The Science of Meetings & Effective Facilitation
This course is part of our Advanced Course in Infection Prevention and Control. See below for links to other modules!
Course Overview
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s advanced module, The Science of Meetings and Effective Facilitation, equips healthcare professionals with the tools and strategies needed to lead productive, results-oriented meetings. Designed for leaders in infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship, this course addresses common meeting pitfalls, provides actionable steps to structure effective discussions, and introduces tools to enhance facilitation.
Target Audience
Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are leading infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals with extensive knowledge of infection prevention and control concepts and considerable practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control.
Audience examples include expert infection preventionists and HAI/AR/IPC staff, expert healthcare or public health epidemiologists, and infection prevention program directors and medical directors.
Overall Learning Objectives
- Specify steps to make meetings effective
- Describe common pitfalls in meetings related to infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship
- Identify tools and resources to review
Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education (CE) credit is available for this course from 9/25/2023 to 9/25/2026. To claim credit, please watch this video in its entirety, then visit the VCU Continuing Medical Education activity page to obtain your credit.
How Did We Do?
We appreciate your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve this course for future participants. Please complete this anonymous evaluation for The Science of Meetings and Effective Facilitation.
VIPTC’s Advanced Course in Infection Prevention and Control
The Advanced Course in Infection Prevention & Control is designed for those leading infection prevention efforts for their organizations and will focus on implementation science, epidemiologic methods for surveillance and basic biostatistical data analysis, interpretation of the literature for evidence-based practice, and leadership training.
Modules:
- Overview of Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Implementation Science
- Epidemiology Methods for Infection Prevention
- Infection Prevention Program Cost Analysis & Writing a Business Plan
- Leadership & Managing Change
- Emergency Preparedness
- Healthcare-Associated Infections National Quality Reporting
- The Science of Meetings and Effective Facilitation
- Performance and Quality Improvement in Infection Prevention
- Modifiable Risk Factors and Performance Measures
- Reading and Using Scientific Literature
- Sustaining and Adapting a Champion of Infection Prevention Team
- Facility Design, Construction, and Renovations and Infection Prevention
- Water Management
- Tags
-