Background: The continuous education of healthcare workers (HCW) is considered as one of the key components of infection control programs. Since nurses are the frontline healthcare staff; their optimal and periodic training in basic infection control practices is essential. Objectives: The current study aimed at assessing the pre-existing knowledge and evaluating the effectiveness of one day educational activities to improve the knowledge regarding infection control practices. Methods: A whole day educational activity comprising didactic lectures and hands-on training on routine infection control practices was conducted for a group of 34 nursing staff. Cognitive gain was assessed using a pre-validated, pre-and posttest questionnaire. The participants' perceptions of the entire educational activity were scored based on a five-point Likert scale. Results: The average percentage of test score increased significantly from 19.71% (pretest score: 3.94 ± 2.3) to 76.69% (posttest score: 15.33 ± 2.4). The class-average normalized gain was 0.7097 (70.97%). The mode rating score of the participant's perception increased from 3 (good) to 4 (very good). Conclusions: Educational intervention had a significant impact on the improvement in the knowledge of nursing staff. Similar periodic interventions should be encouraged to facilitate the learning of HCWs on the best infection control practices.

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Background: The Medical Council of India (MCI) published "regulations on graduate medical education, 1997". No study is available on perception of medical teachers about these regulations. It was planned to study perception of Medical teachers at Government Medical College, Nagpur towards Medical Council of India's Graduate Medical Education Regulations (GMER) 1997. Methods: Cross sectional study was conducted among 150 teachers working at GMC, Nagpur, from July 2014 to January 2015. Data was collected using validated self-administered questionnaire using likert scale. Data was entered in excel sheet and percentage were calculated. Results: More than 75 percent teachers agreed with eligibility criteria for admission to MBBS, duration of MBBS and internship, phase wise distribution of subjects of MBBS, curriculum designed for respective subjects of MBBS. More than 70 percent of teachers were satisfied with existing system of internal assessment and were of opinion that Attendance should be given weightage for internal assessment. About 28 percent teachers said continuation of multiple choice questions in theory examination should be stopped. About 32 percent teachers said previous pattern with 50% weightage to theory and practical each and no internal assessment examination was better. Many teachers suggested changes to the curriculum and gave opinion about MCI Regulations. Conclusions: Majority of the teachers agree with eligibility criteria of MBBS admission, duration of MBBS and internship, phase wise distribution and curriculum designed for respective subjects and are satisfied with existing system of internal assessment. Teachers opine that curriculum should be clinically oriented, applied and should cover practical aspects.