title: Educating the infection control team - past, present and future. A British prespective.
abstract: This review sets out to explore how education and training provisions for members of the Infection Control Team (ICT) have developed alongside their roles and in response to changes in the British National Health Service. It focuses on the Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, the Infection Control Doctor and the Infection Control Nurse in the United Kingdom, but also briefly considers approaches adopted by other countries. Future developments should include maximizing information technology for delivering teaching materials, shared learning and improvements to pre-registration curricula for both doctors and nurses.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. E.A.Jenner@herts.ac.uk
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Jenner
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003253:Consultants; D003479:Curriculum; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D016357:Infection Control Practitioners / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007587:Job Description; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom