Dentistry College held a workshop entitled "Student Guide in Educational Clinics and Infection Control" for fourth and fifth year students.
The workshop included a practical application aspect to teach fourth and fifth year students about methods of controlling infection transmission while working in educational clinics and training on infection prevention protocols, including breaking the chain of infection transmission by using personal protection equipments (PPE), in addition to following modern methods in dealing with medical waste and waste management.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Moumen, the supervisor of student training, said, that the students were divided into groups, and each group has a supervising doctor who teaches the group the basics of operating the dental chair before dealing with the case and starting to sterilize the tools and the place and put on the covers (towels).
Al-Moumen added that there is a mechanism that the student must follow by receiving the patient from the resident supervisor after he passes through the examination unit with the patient signing some papers related to treating his case and being careful to deal with the patient in a formal manner and preventing discussions with the patient as well as preventing the entry of companions to patients, taking into account not leaving children in the dentist's chair without supervision.
It is worth mentioning that such workshops are held annually at the beginning of each new academic year for fourth-year students to prepare them to enter educational clinics and perform therapeutic tasks for patients in the correct scientific manner.
