Open AccessE-Learning Practices on Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI): Report of Brazilian Experience
Author(s) -
Eduardo Alexandrino Medeiros,
Fernando Gatti de Menezes,
Carla Morales Guerra,
Ruth Ester Assayag Batista,
Luciana Baria Perdiz,
Daniela Bicudo Angelieri,
Ana Paula Coutinho,
Mariana Pastorello Verotti,
Sinaida Teixeira Martins,
Mônica Parente Ramos,
Adélia Aparecida Marçal dos Santos
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1558-6340
pISSN - 1553-6203
DOI - 10.3844/ajidsp.2008.232.236
Subject(s) - health care , medicine , intensive care medicine , political science , law
To develop a teaching and learning environment, on-line and free, to provide technical information with health professional team from Epidemiological Health Surveillance and Nosocomial Infection Control Groups in Brazil. The first Brazilian experience of e-learning was carried out through a partnership between the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) and Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). The course supported by different approaches: internet, telephone, books and CD (compact disk). The course had five topics: legislation, epidemiological surveillance, investigation of outbreaks and prevention of infections, occupational risk and isolation, with 20 days each topic and 250 h. Each topic finished with an evaluation and one classroom course. The students number was 236, with 188 selected, 97.7% enrolled in the course and with 3% of non-approval. The students characteristics were: mean age 41.9 years, female gender majority 84.50 and 54.3% nursing, 15.9% physicians and 10.4% pharmacists. In Brazil, with difficulties to have access to knowledge opportunities, HAIs course would be an alternative to teach about infection control