[Teaching contact tracing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic : experiences from the Swiss canton of Vaud]

The rapid evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic required the implementation of contact tracing at an unprecedented scale in the Swiss cantons. Hundreds of contact tracers with different professions, most without medical background, had to be recruited and educated for tasks that usually are carried out by small teams of experts in communicable diseases. Teaching materials and courses about contact tracing, especially in French, were scarce. Thus, the learning team at the contact tracing centre of the canton of Vaud supported by clinicians and epidemiologists developed a method to dynamically create and apply a series of teaching modules. We describe this process and its results. The teaching materials are freely available upon contact with the authors.