British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy - BSAC

The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) is an inter-professional organisation with over 40 years of experience and achievement in antibiotic education, research and leadership and is dedicated to saving lives through appropriate use and development of antibiotics now and in the future.
BSAC publishes the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the leading international journal in its field, and leads Antibiotic Action, a UK led global initiative that seeks to ensure effective antibiotics are researched, discovered and developed for all who need them.
The Society engages with a wide range of stakeholders to improve and promote understanding of antimicrobials, including peer organisations, parliamentarians, policy-makers, students and healthcare trainees, scientists, researchers and journalists.
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Challenges in Antibiotic Resistance: Gram Negative Bacteria (FutureLearn)

This course by BSAC is for healthcare professionals managing infections. You will learn about Gram Negative Bacteria. Identify, diagnose and treat gram negative bacterial infections. Gram negative bacteria (GNB) are a group of bacteria that can cause infection and toxic reaction in patients, yet are difficult to differentiate and [...]

Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Gulf, Middle East and North Africa (FutureLearn)

Improve your knowledge of the spread of antimicrobial resistance in the Gulf, Middle East and North Africa and how to reduce it. Learn about antimicrobial stewardship in the Gulf, Middle East and North Africa. On this course, you’ll examine the threat of antimicrobial resistance in the Middle East, Gulf [...]

The Role of Vaccines in Preventing Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance (FutureLearn)

Learn how vaccines work and can be used for infectious disease control with this online course for healthcare professionals. Explore the impact of vaccines on infectious diseases and AMR. Vaccines are instrumental in protecting people against infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). On this course, you will investigate the [...]

Fungal Diagnostics in Critically Ill Patients (FutureLearn)

Understand the role of fungal diagnostics to guide treatment decisions and identify what makes a ‘good’ fungal diagnostic test. Decipher the role of fungal diagnostics to guide treatment decisions. This three-week fungal diagnostics course is aimed at educating healthcare professionals to a greater degree on the understanding and role [...]

Antimicrobial Stewardship for Africa (FutureLearn)

Improve your knowledge of the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Africa and how to reduce it. Learn how to tackle antimicrobial resistance in Africa. Communicable diseases remain to be a leading cause of death in African countries (WHO). This course will look at the threat of antimicrobial resistance in [...]

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance (FutureLearn)

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 [...]

Preventing and Managing Infections in Childcare and Pre-school (FutureLearn)

Understand how infectious diseases spread and how to protect children from infections. Identify how to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in children. Microbes live everywhere, especially in childcare settings where children play together at close quarters. They come in all shapes and sizes – and not all are [...]

TARGET Antibiotics – Prescribing in Primary Care (FutureLearn)

Helping primary care professionals to target the use of antibiotics to reduce antimicrobial resistance. Discover ideas about how to optimise prescribing in Primary Care. Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem and everyone can play a part in tackling this issue. This course will look at many aspects of antibiotic [...]

Infection Prevention for Vulnerable Patients (FutureLearn)

Personally contribute to the fight against healthcare inequalities in vulnerable patients using a range of case studies. Learn how to be mindful regarding treatment of infections in vulnerable patients. Prevention of infection in the vulnerable patient is an area of unmet educational need and, considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, [...]

Uso racional de antibióticos en el tratamiento de heridas (FutureLearn)

Aprende sobre la resistencia a antibióticos, descubre la amenaza que supone al tratar heridas y conoce las medidas de prevención. Aprende a tratar las infecciones causadas por heridas como un profesional sanita. Es habitual recurrir a antibióticos para tratar las infecciones causadas por heridas. Por ello, es fundamental comprender [...]