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Medical Student Personal Protective Equipment Training Through Simulated Contamination

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To teach medical students safe personal protective equipment doffing, we developed a low-cost, time and resource efficient curriculum using dilute, fluorescent laundry detergent to demonstrate visual evidence of breaks in doffing protocol. After two training sessions, self-contamination while doffing decreased and students’ confidence to doff improved.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Raleigh Building, Suite 304, 600 Gresham Drive, Norfolk, VA, 23507, USA

    Kristen M Zach

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Lauren M Maloney & Andrew Wackett

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Alexander D Praslick

  4. Department of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Peggy A Seidman

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Correspondence to Kristen M Zach.

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Zach, K.M., Maloney, L.M., Praslick, A.D. et al. Medical Student Personal Protective Equipment Training Through Simulated Contamination. Med.Sci.Educ. 26, 517–518 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-016-0321-0

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