Patients with weakened immunity, chronic infections or respiratory illness are more exposed than anyone to a hospital-acquired infection, and traditional treatment methods are becoming less effective as pathogens keep mutating. That gap between old control methods and new resistant strains is exactly where hospitals lose the fight against infection.

This training course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives healthcare professionals modern, evidence-based methods to control bacterial and viral contamination sources, strengthen medical surveillance in health centres, and close that gap before it costs patients their safety.

Course Objectives:

• Apply the best methods of infection control in hospitals.
• Implement preventive measures that control the spread of infection.
• Identify the causes of infection in society generally and in health centres specifically.
• Assess the effects and disease burden caused by infection in health facilities.
• Build the components of a functioning infection prevention programme.

Target Audience:

• Hospital management specialists, doctors and health managers.
• Students and graduates of medical and health colleges and institutes.
• Health centre directors and health administration managers.
• Anyone with a professional interest in health management.

Module 1: Understanding Infection Before Fighting It

• Definition and types of infection.
• How infection spreads within health facilities and the wider community.

Module 2: Modern Methods of Infection Control

• Current, evidence-based methods of infection control.
• Adapting control methods to resistant and mutating pathogens.

Module 3: Building an Infection Control Programme

• The core components of a functioning infection control programme.
• Monitoring, reporting and sustaining infection control standards.