Background: More than 1.4 million people all over the world are suffering from infections acquired during hospital stays . Awareness regarding infection prevention and control techniques are important to reduce the burden of such infections, ensuring better quality healthcare. Infection control education is a core component of infection control programs. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and awareness of Medical students in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Central India and to evaluate the impact of educational interventions in eliminating any existing gaps in the same. Methods: This interventional study based on self-administered questionnaires (Google forms) involved fifty medical Students who were administered a pre-structured validated questionnaire as pre-test and post-test before and after an induction training program on infection prevention & control measures. The impact of the educational intervention was evaluated by determining the learning gain. Result: The study reveals a highly significant improvement in knowledge levels after training sessions (p<0.0001). Before training most of the study subjects (68%) showed poor levels of knowledge, 22% exhibited moderate levels while only 10% were found to have good levels of knowledge. After training 36% of trainees showed good levels of knowledge, 40% exhibited moderate levels while only 24% were left with poor knowledge. Conclusion: While evaluating the impact of training in this study, we have found a statistically significant absolute learning gain and a medium level of class average normalized learning gain. These findings prove the effectiveness of such targeted training sessions as an important strategic tool in preventing healthcare-associated infections.

Endometrial cancer is one of the most common malignancies of the genital tract in women, with an increasing incidence in the last few years. The reported incidence in the United States surpassed 40.00 cases/year while the death rate reached almost 7500 deaths/year (1,2). The most important prognostic factors are thought to be diabetes, estrogen secreting tumors, nulliparity and the higher number of overweight persons (2). While up to 70% of patients are diagnosed in an early stage of the disease and report an excellent outcome (5 year overall survival of 90%), patients diagnosed in an advanced stage of the disease have a poor prognosis associated with low rates of survival - 67% and 23%, respectively, for cases with regional or distant disease (3). However, in these cases it seems that an aggressive surgical approach similar to the one performed in advanced ovarian cancer is perfectly justified (2,4).