Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Veterinary Practice
Participants of this course understood the significance of implementation of good antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary practices. The real-life challenges and practical solutions for achieving and monitoring responsible medicines use were explored. Critical analysis of the factors that influence practitioners' therapeutic decision-making was done. The importance of the links between improved preventative health care, responsible medicines use and One Health was emphasised and explored.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
David Tisdall
Head of Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences and Senior Teaching Fellow in Production Animal Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey.
BSAC
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the importance of and reflect on their responsibility for antimicrobial stewardship within their local context, in relation to the big picture of One Health, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and preventative healthcare
- Evaluate the risks for AMR development and transmission globally and within their local context, and the relationship between prescribing behaviour and AMR development
- Reflect on the internal and external, systemic and human factors that influence their current prescribing practices within their local context and identify opportunities for change
- Evaluate current antimicrobial use and stewardship within the veterinary practices in which they work and engage with the challenges to responsible antimicrobial use
- Develop and lead strategies to motivate good antimicrobial stewardship practices and implement interventions to increase effective prescribing
Syllabus
- Risks for and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- Veterinary prescribing behaviour, antimicrobial use and AMR: external influences and internal motivations
- Species-specific challenges to good antimicrobial stewardship
- Clinical governance and monitoring antimicrobial prescribing patterns
- Evidence-based veterinary medicine and best-practice prescribing
- Antimicrobial stewardship in practice: Strategies for motivating change towards more responsible antimicrobial use
This course has been approved by the CPD Certification Service at a level of 9 credits.
Issued on 3rd December 2023
The person named on this certificate has completed the activities in the transcript above. For more information about Certificates of Achievement and the effort required to become eligible, visit futurelearn.com/proof-of-learning/certificate-of-achievement.
This certificate represents proof of learning. It is not a formal qualification, degree, or part of a degree.