Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
Understand antibiotic resistance, and how antimicrobial stewardship can slow down or reduce it, with this free online course
Who is the course for?
This course requires an active interest and prior experience in the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious disease. This version is for learners who prefer to participate in English.
You can also join the course in the following language versions:
Espanol: Optimización del uso de antimicrobianos: Gestión de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos
中文: 抗菌素管理: 管理抗生素耐药性
Pусский: Стратегия контроля антимикробной терапии (СКАТ): контроль антибиотикорезистентности
What topics will you cover?
Antibiotic Resistance and its global impact
The relationship between antibiotic resistance and prescribing
What antimicrobial stewardship is and how it can be implemented in a hospital setting
Why measurement is important in stewardship: how it can improve antibiotic prescribing
How novel diagnostics can help in clinical decision making for antibiotic prescribing
An understanding of the value of Behaviour Change Science to improve antibiotic prescribing
Examples of successful antibiotic stewardship from across the globe
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Assess the threat of antibiotic resistance in the learner’s location and to their practice
Evaluate the effectiveness of using certain strategies/tools/interventions in antimicrobial stewardship to drive improvement in learner’s location and practice
Understand the value of measurement in antimicrobial stewardship: how to calculate DDDs and use Point Prevalence Surveys, have begun to determine how to use these in their location and practice to drive improvements in antibiotic prescribing
Assess the value of novel diagnostics to clinical decision making for optimal antibiotic prescribing
Understand the value of Behaviour Change Science to successful antimicrobial stewardship: by assessing issues around culture and context learners will explore how you can apply this evidence in their own setting
Examples of successful antimicrobial stewardship implementation from across the globe will be provided and learners encouraged to assess the value of these for their own location and practice
