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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
This course introduced the concepts of hospital antimicrobial stewardship including: antibiotic resistance, programme development, measuring antibiotic use, emerging diagnostic strategies and behaviour change and how to relate and implement these in their own healthcare and geographical context.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Dilip Nathwani, OBE
Programme Director & President of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Infectious Disease Physician, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, NHS Tayside & University of Dundee.
University of Dundee
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Learning outcomes
- Understand and assess the value of Behaviour Change Science to antimicrobial stewardship implementation in the learners own location
- 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 Prevelance 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
Syllabus
- 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
This course has been approved by The Royal College of Pathologists at a level of 18 credits.
Issued on 29th October 2016
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