Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Antibiotic Resistance: the Silent Tsunami
Uppsala University
This online course explored the concepts of antibiotic resistance. The course covered topics including the history of antibiotics, mechanisms and consequences of resistance, major challenges and what actions are needed to meet the challenge of emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Thomas Tängdén, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases
Uppsala University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess the importance of antibiotics and the consequences of emerging resistance
- Explore basic mechanisms of antibiotics, bacteria and antibiotic resistance
- Reflect on major challenges related to resistance in clinical practice, innovation, financial models and equal distribution of medicines
- Engage in activities needed to meet the threat of antibiotic resistance
Syllabus
- The discovery and history of antibiotics
- The importance of antibiotics and consequences of emerging resistance
- Basic mechanisms of antibiotics, bacteria and antibiotic resistance
- Major challenges related to resistance in clinical practice, innovation, financial models and equal distribution of medicines
- Actions that can be implemented on a societal or individual level to manage, control and prevent emergence and spread of resistance
- Ongoing initiatives to meet this global health threat
Issued on 30th October 2016
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