CME from CDC: What You Need to Know About Infection Control

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Each year in the U.S., at least 2.8 million people get an antibiotic-resistant infection, and more than 35,000 people die. It’s critical that all healthcare workers understand proper infection control procedures and use them every day.

Although healthcare facilities and infection control experts have made significant progress in preventing some types of infections, there is still a great deal of work to do.

CDC and Medscape have launched a series of six CME/CE activities addressing the key issues surrounding infection prevention in healthcare facilities. These courses feature discussions with CDC and external experts in infection prevention.

The series includes:
  1. Risk Recognition in Healthcare Settings (Available Now)external icon
  2. Environmental Services and Infection Prevention (Available Now)external icon
  3. Recognizing Infection Risks in Medical Equipment (Available Now)external icon
  4. Infection Transmission Risks Associated with Nonsterile Glove Use (Available Now)external icon
  5. Infection Prevention: A Hierarchy of Controls Approach (Available Now)external icon
  6. Injection Safety: A System Approach (Available Now)external icon

Target audience:
  • Primary care physicians
  • Public health and preventive medicine specialists
  • Emergency medicine physicians
  • Pharmacists
  • Nurses
FREE CME/CE Infection Prevention and Control Series
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Page last reviewed: June 14, 2017
Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)