Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Tackling Antibiotic Resistance: What Should Dental Teams Do?
BSAC and FDI World Dental Federation
This course highlighted the threat that antibiotic resistance (ABR) poses to global health and wealth. It explored the impact of resistant infections on dentistry and the role that dentistry plays in ABR. It explained that antibiotics are not always a risk-free treatment option and that dental teams have a responsibility to patients to optimise antibiotic use. It offered ways in which dental teams can tackle ABR and highlighted the importance of collaboration between dental teams and beyond.
3 weeks, 1 hour per week
Wendy Thompson
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Dental Care
University of Manchester
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the global problem of antibiotic resistance (ABR)
- Summarise the impact of resistant infections on dentistry and of dentistry on ABR more generally
- Reflect on why ABR is a problem which affects everyone (including you, your friends and family)
- Explore the risks of both infections and antibiotics to patients
- Identify what you will do to help tackle ABR
- Explain the importance of local solutions to the global problem and understand that it is an issue for the whole dental team and beyond
Syllabus
- Awareness about why and how antibiotic-resistant infections are your problem
- Motivating change by sharing examples of antibiotic stewardship, infection prevention and control, and awareness-raising from around the world
- Creating a framework to help you devise ways you and your team can help tackle antibiotic resistance in your own context
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Issued on 16th August 2024
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