Needle Injuries to Medical Students Often Go Unreported
A study calls attention to the danger if the patient being treated, or the student, has an infectious disease. Transcript of radio broadcast:
09 February 2010
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
For medical students, real experience begins not in a classroom but at a teaching hospital. These doctors in training are supervised. But sometimes accidents happen and the students get injured.
For example, they might stick themselves with a needle while treating patients. Such needle sticks are common. But a recent study found that medical students often fail to report them. Failing to report an injury like this can be dangerous if a patient, or a medical worker, has an infectious disease.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, did the study. It appeared in the journal Academic Medicine.
It involved a survey answered by almost seven hundred surgeons in training. These surgical residents were at seventeen medical centers in the United States.
Almost sixty percent said they had suffered needle stick injuries when they were in medical school. Many said they were stuck more than once.
Yet nearly half of those whose most recent incident happened in school did not report it to an employee health office. If they had, they would have been tested to see if they needed treatment to prevent an infection like H.I.V. or hepatitis.
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