IPAC Canada Education Institute
The IPAC Canada Education Institute offers a wide variety of training and learning opportunities for infection prevention and control professionals. Whether you are a novice or advanced practitioner, you’ll find everything from short and long-term Infection Prevention and Control Essentials courses, to online hand hygiene and routine practices modules, and upcoming webinars relevant to your practice. IPAC Canada members can access past webinar recordings, and past national education conference archives.
Our annual National Education Conference is the premier infection prevention and control educational event in Canada.
IPAC Canada National Conference
IPAC Canada Essentials in IPAC Courses
IPAC Canada Webinars and Chapter Educational Events
e-Learning Modules
Core Competencies and Certification
Awards and Scholarships
Canadian IPAC Course
A list of IPAC Canada Sponsored, Acknowledged, and Endorsed courses can be found here.
Endorsement refers to the official approval of IPAC Canada that a course meets certain criteria specifically related to content, length, instructors, evaluation, and delivery. Courses must relate to basic educational preparation of individuals for infection prevention and control practice. If granted, endorsement will apply for three years, but annual updates must be submitted for the endorsement to be maintained.
For more information on IPAC Canada’s Course Endorsement Procedure.
- Against All Odds – Inside statistics from the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (Chedd-Angier)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Text – The APIC Text is an excellent resource for the CBIC examination! IPAC Canada members may purchase the APIC Text at members rate.
- Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics (Vassar College)
- Online Education Modules from the Provincial Infection Control Network of British Columbia (PICNet)
- Orientation Manual (PICNet)
- Webber Training –International infection prevention and control lecture series presented via live Teleclass (teleconference) or via on-line recording.
- Webinars from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)