Training courses on infection prevention and control (IPC)

AGENCIES

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Catalogue of infection control and hospital hygiene courses in the European Union

• ECDC Virtual Academy - Training Materials for a course on Control of Multi-Drug Resistant Micro-organisms in Health Care Settings

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Clean Care is Safer Care. Tools for training and education (2009)
• Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene: a standardized approach to guide education in infection prevention and control (2019)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)

• EUCIC Infection Prevention and Control Certificate (European Committee on Infection Control – EUCIC, 2018)

Infection Prevention Society/International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene (IPS/IFH)

• Home Hygiene - Prevention of infection at home and in everyday life: a learning and training resource (2018)

EU/EEA COUNTRIES

Austria

• Training and continuing education in hospital hygiene/infection control for doctors (Austrian Society of Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine) Description of the course (coming soon)
  Organisation’s website

Croatia

• Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (University of Zagreb School of Medicine)
  Organisation’s website

Cyprus

• Infectious Diseases: Prevention and Control (School of Medicine, European University Cyprus)
  Organisation's website

Czech republic

• Certified course on infection prevention and control in health care facilities (Charles University in Prague)
  Organisation’s website

Denmark

• E-learning – Hand hygiene (Statens Serum Institut, 2018)
  Organisation’s website
• E-learning – Interaktivt undervisningsmateriale om infektionshygiejne, inkl. ‘Værd at vide om håndhygiejne’ (Statens Serum Institut, 2018)
  Organisation’s website

Finland

• Specialization studies for hygiene nurse (Arcada University of Applied Sciences)
  Organisation’s website

France

• Nosocomial infections and hospital hygiene (Pierre and Marie Curie University-Paris V, René Descartes University-Paris VI, Denis Diderot University-Paris VII)
  Organisation’s website

• Health care-associated infections and hospital hygiene (University of Lorraine)
  Organisation’s website

Germany

• Curricular Training "Hospital Hygiene" of the Federal Chamber of Physicians (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie - DGHM & Gesellschaft für Hygiene, Umweltmedizin und Präventivmedizin - GHUP)
  Organisation’s website

• Antibiotic stewardship course - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene (DGKH)
  Organisation's website

Hungary

• Infection control and patient safety (University of Debrecen)
  Organisation’s website

Ireland

• Postgraduate diploma (infection prevention & control nursing) (Royal College of Surgeons Ireland School of Nursing & Midwifery)
  Organisation’s website

• MSc infection prevention & control nursing (Royal College of Surgeons Ireland School of Nursing & Midwifery)
  Organisation’s website

• MSc in healthcare infection management (Trinity College Dublin)
  Organisation’s website

• Postgraduate certificate in health protection – campus based (CKU02) (University College Cork)
  Organisation’s website

• Postgraduate certificate in health protection – online (CKU13) (University College Cork)
  Organisation’s website

• Postgraduate diploma in public health (health protection) (University College Cork)
  Organisation’s website

• Master of public health (CKX11) (University College Cork)
  Organisation’s website

Lithuania

• Healthcare associated infections management (control) (Centre of continuous training and specialization for nurse)
  Organisation’s website

• Epidemiological surveillance of healthcare associated infections (Institute of Hygiene)
  Organisation’s website

Malta

• Infection prevention and control (University of Malta)
  Organisation’s website

Netherlands

• Hygiene and infection prevention in healthcare (Wenckebach Institute, Universitair Medical Center Groningen)
  Organisation’s website

Norway

• Infection Prevention and Control (University of South-Eastern Norway)
  Organisation’s website

Poland

• Infection control in healthcare facilities (Jagiellonian University Medical College)
  Organisation’s website

Slovenia

• Hospital hygiene postgraduate course (University of Ljubljana with collaboration of University Medical Centre Ljubljana)
  Organisation’s website

Sweden

• E-learning – Standard precautions
  E-utbildning – Basala hygienrutiner

COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE EU/EEA

United Kingdom

• Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in healthcare associate infection control (University College London)
  Organisation’s website