Volume 18 Number 1

February 1990 Committee reports 35A

recommended to the APIC Board of Directors that a generic infection control curriculum be considered as a future project. A sample outline of chapters was provided to demonstrate the scope of the proposed curriculum. The proposed curriculum would be marketed to schools and universities preparing students for careers in health-related professions, with the potential for further development of career-specific mod- ules designed by the most common teaching method used for the profession. The APIC Board approved the curriculum concept but recom- mended a marketing survey be conducted to demonstrate interest in the product before pub- lication. Therefore the task force has prepared a marketing survey for APIC to randomly select a sample of schools and universities and eval- uate their interest in the curriculum and other educational materials.

The task forc’e particularly thanks the ICPs who volunteered for the textbook review, which was very labor intensive. In addition, we recognize the .work of Julie Jefferson, RN, MPH, Enes Bellamore, RN, MS, and Mary Hawthorne, RN, PhD, for the data coding, com- puter entry, statistical analysis, and interpre- tation of the findings.

Maureen Spencer, RN, BSN, CIC Chairman, Infection Control Curriculum Task Force APIC Education Committee

RESEARCH COMMITTEE CONSULTATION CLINIC-APIC ‘90

Again this year the Research Committee will offer a free research consultation clinic at the Research Committee booth at APIC 90 in Wash- ington, D.C. Participants will have the oppor- tunity to receive free one-on-one consultation from an APIC member with research experi- ence. Researchers will be available through- out the week to assist the membership on any aspect of the research process, such as prob- lem identification, study design, data analy- sis, funding, or literature review. Consultation will be by appointment. We suggest you sign up early because registration will be limited.

Handouts on the different aspects of research will also be available.

APE Research Committee Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC, Chairman Brian Cooper, MD Helen Kotilainen, MT(ASCP), CIC Sandra Landry, RN, MS, CIC Barbara Terry, RN, BSN, CIC

PRN: PUBLIC RELATIONS NEWS

The Public Relations Committee is pleased to feature Steve Weinstein, MT(ASCP), MPH, CIC. Steve, a native New Yorker, moved to Boston in 1975 to complete a laboratory internship and requirements for certification in medical tech- nology at Boston’s Veterans Administration Hospital.

After working 1 year in the microbiology lab, Steve had the opportunity to assume the duties of infection control at a community teaching hospital. On completing the requirements for a MPH degree from Boston University, he took a position as director of the board of health for the town of Winchester, Mass., where he learned the practical aspects of public health.

His real passion being infection control, he entered the area again as Director of Infection Control at the University of Massachusetts Med- ical Center. He has recently been appointed as an i:nstructor at the medical school. Half his responsibility at the University of Massachu- setts is as director of educational program on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) directed toward college students in central Massachusetts. This is a 5-year research study funded, by the National Institutes of Health to ascertain whether risk reduction strategies work to prevent human immunodeficiency vi- rus infection and other sexually transmitted diseases among college students.

Stleve served on the original Certification Board of Infection Control and as chairman of the test committee that developed the first cer- tification examination. He is now finishing his second term as a member of the APIC Board of Directors. Recently, Steve was named to the faculty of the Joint Commission and has been