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Table 1 Learning outcomes for OR technician trainees, medical students and both student groups

From: Operating room technician trainees teach medical students - an inter-professional peer teaching approach for infection prevention strategies in the operation room

Learning objectives

Psychometric dimensiona

Overarching (general) learning objectives:

 Infection prevention and control in the operating room

  - Contributes to patient safety

  - Is promoted by inter-professional collaboration

Specific learning objectives

 At the end of the teaching/learning session ...

  students from both professional groups are able to …

   mutually share the perspective of the complementary pro-fessional group, exchange between the two professional study programs

Cognitive, affective

   understand their roles as team players within a culture of patient safety in the OR

Affective, cognitive

   describe how they could contribute to a culture of safety even in positions of lower hierarchy (including “speak-up” strategies)

Cognitive, affective

  operating room technician trainees (ORTT) are able to …

   pass on well-founded knowledge and skills for antiseptic behavior in the OR to medical students (including consolidation of own competencies)

Cognitive, psycho-motor, affective

   be aware of one’s own role as an expert in antiseptic behavior in the OR

Cognitive, affective

   reflect their teaching performance based on the experience they gathered within the module

Cognitive, affective

  medical students are able to …

   demonstrate effective surgical hand disinfection

Psychomotor

   demonstrate appropriate behavior in the OR setting (assignment of tasks, positioning in the room etc.)

Cognitive, psycho-motor, affective

   explain principles to prevent germ transmission in the OR

Cognitive

   explain and in parts demonstrate the preparation of a surgical field prior to a simple intervention

Cognitive, psycho-motor

  1. asimplified Bloom’s taxnonomy (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective objectives) [24]