Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance

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Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
  1. What is the course about?
  2. Prerequisites & Facts
  3. Cost, Certificate & Degree
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What is the course about?

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
The course Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance is an online class provided by University of Dundee through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Understand antibiotic resistance, and how antimicrobial stewardship can slow down or reduce it, with this free online course

Course description
  • Understand antimicrobial stewardship
  • 6 weeks
  • Designed for healthcare professionals, this six-week course will inform you about – and empower you to provide – safe, high-quality antibiotic use. You’ll interact with colleagues globally, to understand what antibiotic resistance means – and why the World Economic Forum has placed it alongside terrorism and climate change on its global risk register. You can also join the course in Español,
    中文, or Pусский.
  • 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
  • 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 Prevalence 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
  • This course requires an active interest and prior experience in the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious disease. This version is for learners who prefer to participate in English.
  • You can also join the course in the following language versions:
  • University of Dundee
  • The University of Dundee is one of the world’s Top 200 universities and was named Scottish University of the Year for both 2016 and 2017. Dundee offers one of the UK’s best student experiences.
  • BSAC
  • Founded in 1971, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy exists to facilitate the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance

Course Topic

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University, College, Institution

University of Dundee

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Dundee you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: University of Dundee
Topic: Antimicrobial & Antibiotic Resistance, Healthcare & Medicine

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