Abstract
The attendance of in-hospital study sessions is low among healthcare professionals, so knowledge regarding the prevention of infection may be deficient. However, in-hospital infection prevention and medical safety requires that healthcare professionals possess adequate knowledge regarding infection. Therefore, to ensure that healthcare professionals possess basic knowledge regarding infections, we planned several study sessions intended for all medical professions, which were held frequently, unlike aggregative training, by pharmacists from the ICT for each department. because of the frequent sessions and the cooperation of departmental leaders, the attendance rate of the in-hospital study sessions escalated to 95%, and the educational content of the study session could also be customized for each department. To verify the effectiveness of the study, we adopted the nominative confirmation test for the study session and attempted to review and discuss the educational influence of the session after the confirmation test was adopted by conducting a retest after one year. The accuracy rate of the confirmation test differed depending on the category of the job and question, but the effectiveness of the study session was 88.2% after the study session, compared to 66.8% before the study session in terms of the accuracy rate after the confirmation test was employed. Moreover, the confirmation tests with the same questions after one year showed an accuracy rate of 81.6%, which was higher than that calculated before the study session in the previous year, so seemed to achieve retention of knowledge. We concluded that the study session adopting the confirmation test for healthcare professionals provided more effective education.
