Course: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Veterinary Practice

In this video, Helen Braid provides potential discussion barriers for antimicrobial stewardship in equine practice. Challenges faced in equine practice: Client expectation & pressure. Drug availability. Drug licensing. Diagnostics. Competition …

In this video, Anette Loeffler, associate Professor of vet dermatology at RVC, discusses the challenges of MRSP and MRSA, in the context of canine pyoderma. Bacterial skin infections in dogs …

In this video, Rosanne Jepson, discusses the importance of good hand hygiene in companion animal practice as part of antimicrobial stewardship. Further to step 1.11, where the challenges to achieveing …

The steps in this next activity, challenges to achieving good antimicrobial stewardship, will discuss some barriers you may face when trying to implement AMS. Each step will discuss the barriers …

When discussing why we prescribe, we also have to look at what we prescribe. In this video, Robert Hyde explains what critically important antibiotics (CIAs) are. Certain antibiotic classes are …

In this video, David Tisdall discusses the factors involved in our prescribing decisions. There are several extrinsic and intrinsic factors that are considered. Click to enlarge Often it is these …

Before we can understand how to prevent AMR, we need to understand how it occurs. Nicola Williams will cover this concept in this article. Antibiotics are ‘magic bullets’ with the …

In the video above, Jill Maddison, Professor of general practice at the Royal Veterinary College, discusses the importance of antimicrobial stewardship. In step 1.3, the importance of AMS was discussed …

Now you have thought about what AMS means to you in step 1.3, David Tisdall will discuss why it matters and who is responsible for it, in this video. His …

Before we start this course, it is important to understand what AMS really is. In this video David Tisdall, the lead educator for this course, talks about what AMS means …