Understand antibiotic resistance, and how antimicrobial stewardship can slow down or reduce it, with this free online course. Antimicrobial stewardship is a fast-growing field that aims to address this issue by managing our use of antibiotics to slow down or reduce the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance. Designed for healthcare professionals, this six-week course will inform you about - and empower you to provide - safe, high-quality antibiotic use.
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You’ll interact with colleagues globally, to understand what antibiotic resistance means - and why the World Economic Forum has placed it alongside terrorism and climate change on its global risk register.
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
