Diploma in Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC)
This course is primarily aimed at developing capacity among learners for best practices in healthcare-associated infection prevention and control. Healthcare-Associated infections (HAI) can easily qualify as the most important patient safety concerns in hospitals. To address the menace of HAI, infection control is kept as one of the main objectives, while designing any healthcare delivery structure, policies and processes. Almost all activities that are done within the hospital and health care institutions have a bearing on infection control and there are a large number of studies that have resulted in various good practices for controlling infections. It is also a requirement under the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) to review the standards and objective elements for Infection Prevention and Control best practices during the accreditation on the process in the country.
The standards and guidelines are for the following aspects:
- Facility and infrastructure for infection control
- Organization for Infection control
- Policies, processes, practices and implementation
- Surveillance, monitoring and indicators
COURSE STRUCTURE
Term I: 6 Months
IPC 101: Basic & Applied Sciences – Anatomy, Physiology & Microbiology
IPC 102: Introduction to Health Care-Associated Infections
IPC 103: Epidemiology of Health Care-Associated Infections
IPC 104: Organization of Infection Control Committee in Health Care Settings
Term II: 6 Months
IPC 201: HAI Types and Bundle Care Approach including Policy Prescriptions
IPC 202: Universal Safety and Best Practices for HAI
IPC 203: Sterilization, Disinfection and Biomedical Waste Management
IPC 204: Project Work on HAI
COURSE MATERIALS
Self-study course materials will be provided for online access on the globally acclaimed Edx platform to enrolled students. Each unit will have internal assessment questions.
CONTACT CLASSES AND PRACTICAL WORK
All students admitted to the distance education programmes are required to attend contact classes at the university campuses / online webinars. 70% of attendance is mandatory in the contact classes and practical sessions. They must participate, to the satisfaction of the Co-ordinator of a programme or tutors of the courses and the Faculty of CDVL, in study-seminars, sessions and counselling sessions as may be prescribed.
EXAM & RESULT
The final result for each programme is determined on the basis of :
Attendance in contact classes and practicals- 10%
Internal Assessment or Assignments- 30%
Performance in the term-end examination- 60%
In the covid-19 pandemic situation, semester examinations were conducted online.
The final result in each course will thus be calculated in the following manner:
A student is declared passed in a course only if he/she secures a minimum of 40% marks in all, provided he/she secures a minimum of 40% marks i.e 24 marks in the term-end examinations. Students with less than 40% marks in aggregate in any course taken by him/her may appear for reexamination in the next term-end examination. Candidates who failed in any paper have to pay Rs. 500/- per paper to appear in the subsequent examinations.