Introduction:
The Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Department (ICHE) at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in collaboration with Training and Development Department is committed to training interns for three months.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the program, each intern should be able to provide comprehensive infection prevention and control services that meet the hospital objectives with supervision:
- Ability to respond to surveillance of infections based on the infection control surveillance plan for assigned inpatients and ambulatory care units.
- Works with staffs in the clinical setting to identify patient care requirements concerning infection prevention and control.
- Provides education for health care workers (HCWs), visitors, patients, and their families on infection prevention and control needs.
- Monitor individual compliance with existing infection prevention and control policies, criteria, or regulations.
- Aware of the process of communicating communicable disease statistics to the Ministry of Health (MOH) on a weekly and monthly basis and in cases of certain infections (e.g., MTB, MERS-CoV, COVID-19, .etc.) epidemics daily according to the policy.
- Performs rounds to all patient care and non-patient care areas for case findings and supervision of environmental factors.
- Introduces all necessary measures to prevent the spread of infection or organisms highly resistant to antibiotics.
- Collaborates with other members of Outbreak control team in investigating the epidemic of infections.
- Perform appropriate follow-up of employees who have unprotected exposure to diseases for which specific protocols exist.
Duration:
Three (3) months
Acceptance criteria:
- Internship request letter from Intern’s sponsor
- Saudi national or borne from Saudi mother only
- GPA 3.75 out of 5 or 3 out of 4 or above
- English Proficiency Exam (TOFEL iBT) score of 84 and above, or equivalent
Benefits:
- Medical coverage as per hospital policy
- Certificate of completion
Things to know before applying:
- Submitting your application does not mean acceptance to the internship
- Applying to the internship must be at least (2) two months prior to the starting date
- Training seats are limited and based on availability
- Verifying the accuracy of documents and information submitted is your responsibility
- Please note that inaccurate information or missing documents will lead to your application being rejected
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