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This training aims to equip clinicians with essential infection control knowledge and resources, including identifying contagious patients, implementing isolation precautions, and safeguarding against infectious exposures.  Learn how the Oregon Project Firstline initiative and its educational offerings enhance infection prevention practices among healthcare professionals.

This activity has been designed for Physicians, Physician Assistants, and other healthcare professionals.

Start date: 1/31/2024
End date: 1/31/2027

Learning objectives: 

• Apply foundational infection control knowledge.
• Recognize infection prevention education resources available for healthcare educators and frontline healthcare personnel.
• Describe the Oregon Project Firstline public health initiative and its offerings.

Faculty:
Nicholas Ida, MPH 
Healthcare Training & Capacity Epidemiologist 
Oregon Health Authority (OHA),Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) Team 
"What is Project Firstline"


Disclosures Statement

The Oregon Medical Association (OMA) requires that all those involved the planning of and with the ability to control content of an accredited continuing education activity disclose all financial relationships within the past 24 months. All conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to this activity.

Mr. William Witmer discloses employment with Genentech during the past 24 months, but that relationship ended in May 2023.

The faculty, planners, or others involved in the planning, development, or otherwise in a position to control content disclosed no financial relationships with an ineligible company whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

AMA Project Firstline is a national collaborative led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide infection control training and education to frontline health care workers and public health personnel. AMA has partnered with Project Firstline, as supported through Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-CK20-2003. OMA is proud to collaborate with AMA and Project Firstline in this educational activity. CDC is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this event do not necessarily represent the policies of CDC or HHS, and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.