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Med students stuck with inadequate needlestick training

OSHA Healthcare Connection, August 30, 2005

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Inexperience puts medical school students at a greater risk to the incidence and consequence of needlesticks, according to the August 26 Medicine & Law Weekly.

The article reported on a study of University of Toronto medical school students. The study found that more than one-third of the 2003 graduating class had experienced multiple needlesticks. Students continued to work and did not seek medical advice afterward in more than half of the exposure incidents.

Of the students exposed, only 15% percent had disability insurance at the time of the incident. Medical school students without insurance face greater health and career risks from exposures, the study explained.

"Needlestick Injury and Inadequate Post-Exposure Practice in Medical Students," appeared in the May Journal of General Internal Medicine.



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