Patient safety and medicines
Standard and transmission-based precautions, outbreaks, notification under the Infectious Diseases Act, blood-borne viruses and antimicrobial stewardship in Singapore practice
Registered health professionals in Singapore: doctors, nurses and midwives, dentists and oral health therapists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, optometrists and opticians, plus IPC link staff and Principal Officers of licensed services.
Structured learning and a written reflection to show insight after a complaint, an investigation or a board inquiry.
Focused learning on a core standard of practice, with a certificate and reflection for your portfolio.
This course teaches health professionals in Singapore how to prevent avoidable infection in every setting where they work: acute and community hospitals, polyclinics and general practice, nursing homes, dental clinics, retail and hospital pharmacies, optometry and allied health practices, dialysis and endoscopy centres, and patients' homes. It covers the chain of infection, hand hygiene and the five moments, personal protective equipment and the hierarchy of controls, sharps and safe injection practice, aseptic technique, the Spaulding classification, sterilisation, cleaning and the handling of biohazardous waste.
It sets this practice within Singapore's framework: the Infectious Diseases Act 1976 and notification through CDLENS, the Communicable Diseases Agency and the national IPC guidelines and standards it hosts, licensing under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 and MOH's serious reportable events, the PDPA, workplace safety reporting, and the codes of the SMC, SNB, SDC, SPC, AHPC and OOB. It also covers transmission-based precautions, multidrug-resistant organisms such as CPE, outbreaks in wards and nursing homes, your own immunity, blood-borne viruses and exposure-prone procedures, and needlestick and splash injuries.
The final section turns to antimicrobial stewardship under the National Strategic Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (NSAPv2, 2025 to 2030), surveillance, treating infections caused by care as incidents, and how to respond with genuine insight if an IPC concern is raised about you. Throughout, the course addresses communication across languages and generations and the fair, non-stigmatising use of isolation and screening.
10 sections · 25 lessons · 3 hours (estimated) · 20-question final assessment
Final assessment
20scenario-based questions
Certificate of completion
A certificate of completion for your learning portfolio.
The course includes a structured reflective account template: guided prompts to record what you learned, how you will apply it and how the change will show in your practice. It gives you written evidence of insight after a concern, and a ready record for your CPD portfolio.
Write it in your own words and leave out anything that could identify a patient, a colleague or a case. If you have an open complaint or case, talk to your adviser before reflecting on it in writing.
It draws on the national IPC guidelines and standards hosted by the Communicable Diseases Agency, including those for acute healthcare facilities, primary care, community hospitals, long-term care, nursing homes, dialysis and endoscopy centres, together with the national cleaning, ventilation, water management and building documents. It shows which applies to your setting and what to do where none applies directly.
Under section 6 of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976, medical practitioners and laboratories must notify confirmed and suspected cases of scheduled diseases within the prescribed time, through the CDLENS portal. Clusters and suspected emerging infections must be notified immediately. The course explains how other professionals should escalate suspicions.
Wash the wound with soap and running water, report at once so that a risk assessment and any post-exposure prophylaxis can start promptly, have baseline tests, and file an incident report. The course covers consent for source patient testing, the Mental Capacity Act where the source lacks capacity, and the employer's reporting duty to the Ministry of Manpower.
Yes. It covers MRSA, VRE, carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, Candida auris and other multidrug-resistant organisms, including screening of high-risk patients such as those transferred from overseas hospitals, placement, respectful communication with patients and families, and passing on status at transfer.
Yes. Examples run across dental sterilisation, tonometer tips, pharmacy and stewardship, physiotherapy and aerosol-generating procedures, radiography, nursing homes and home care, as well as hospitals and general practice.
The course explains exposure-prone procedures and the obligation to stop them and seek occupational health and specialist advice if you may be infected. Professionals who seek and follow advice are entitled to confidentiality and support.
It is for doctors, nurses and midwives, dentists and oral health therapists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and optometrists and opticians in Singapore. It takes about three hours, with a 20-question assessment at 80%.
Every legal and regulatory point comes from primary sources: the Acts that set up each professional board, the boards' own codes and guidance, and the Ministry of Health. Anything we cannot confirm is left out.
Lessons, scenarios and assessment questions are written by us for each edition separately, then checked for accuracy, teaching quality and fair assessment before publication.
When a code, standard or law changes, the affected courses are reviewed and updated. Reported errors in legal or regulatory facts are corrected first.
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