Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: A Social Science Approach
BSAC and Imperial College London
This course explored how a social science perspective can fight the problem of antimicrobial resistance. You will have gained insight into antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in different contexts and how to apply a social science research approach, as well as an introduction to social science theory.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Esmita Charani
Post-Doctoral Researcher & Clinical Pharmacist at Imperial College London
BSAC
Monsey McLeod
Lead Pharmacist Medication Safety and Anti-Infectives Research at Imperial College London
BSAC
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of what social science is
- Explore examples of using different social science research methods for tackling antimicrobial resistance in primary and secondary care, and in high-income and lower-middle income countries
- Explore the application of a realist review to inform recommendations for developing and/or improving antimicrobial stewardship
- Identify examples of using ethnography to gain novel insights into current delivery of antimicrobial stewardship activities
- Describe how implementation science can help to improve implementation of antimicrobial stewardship activities
- Identify potential research questions or improvement project ideas for your practice setting that can be investigated in future studies using social science methods
Syllabus
- What is social science and why do we need a social science perspective for tackling AMR?
- Insights on implementing AMS to tackle AMR across different settings
- Introduction to realist review
- Introduction to ethnography
- Introduction to implementation science
This course has been approved by the CPD Certification Service at a level of 6 credits.
Issued on 20th July 2023
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