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

Breckwoldt, Jan; Knecht, Monika; Massée, Ralph; Flach, Barbara; Hofmann-Huber, Caroline; Kaap-Fröhlich, Sylvia; Witt, Claudia M; Aeberhard, Ruth; Sax, Hugo

doi:10.5167/uzh-170878

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Breckwoldt, J., Knecht, M., Massée, R., Flach, B., Hofmann-Huber, C., Kaap-Fröhlich, S., Witt, C. M., Aeberhard, R., & Sax, H. (2019). Operating room technician trainees teach medical students - an inter-professional peer teaching approach for infection prevention strategies in the operation room. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 8, 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-019-0526-2

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’; ‘sur