| Abstrakt: |
Academic medical centers comprise a diverse group of students, researchers, and health care professionals. There are also 3 unique environments: education, health care, and research. Differences in biosafety practices and procedures exist between these environments, but the common goal is to produce well-trained and successful health care and research professionals. An important part of the educational experience should include biosafety training. Having a strong foundation on biosafety principles will increase safety compliance in both the clinical and research workforces. Both students and employees should be knowledgeable and aware of biosafety. A biosafety survey was developed to measure the knowledge of students on biosafety principles at an academic medical center. This survey was validated by field professionals, including physicians, nurses, laboratory technologists, and researchers, who were surrogates for a multidisciplinary student population. The goal of the validation was to determine if the biosafety survey included appropriate questions and responses to adequately assess biosafety knowledge among students at an academic medical center. This step was very important because there are differences in the practices and guidelines for health care and research arenas. The validation results indicated that there are differences in the understanding of biosafety principles among different disciplines. There are also major differences in interpretations of biosafety principles between clinicians and researchers. |
