Infection prevention and control pre-service education and training curriculum: foundational content for all health and care workers

Overview

The primary objective of this curriculum is to equip pre-service students in health-related programmes with the essential knowledge, skills and behavioural competencies necessary for delivering safe health care so as to protect everyone accessing the health care system, thereby reducing health care-associated infections and combating antimicrobial resistance. This curriculum is designed to meet the needs of educators who develop learning resources and oversee training within health and care worker educational institutions targeted at pre-service health science students, such as nursing, medicine, midwifery, dentistry, public health and allied health care professions, for example, paramedicine, physiotherapy and others. It is also designed to be flexible, allowing for adaptation to various educational and practical contexts to meet specific national and local IPC requirements and policies.