Online Foodborne Outbreak Training for Health Professionals

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Online Foodborne Outbreak 
Training for Health Professionals

Health professionals must work together to protect the public from foodborne outbreaks. This collaboration is the focus of a self-paced, interactive learning module called “Navigating a Foodborne Outbreak: Preparation for Interprofessional Practice.”

The module takes approximately 90 minutes to two hours. Learners may complete it in one session, or pause and return to the module to finish in multiple sessions. It has three chapters—one set in an outpatient clinic, one at a local public health department, and one at a multidisciplinary meeting after the outbreak has resolved. The scenario is based on a multistate foodborne outbreak that occurred in 2015-16, but the details of the patients, clinicians, and the local health department are fictional. The training was developed through CDC funding.