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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance certification has been provided in joint association with FutureLearn, University of Dundee, and British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This course only has a duration of 6 weeks and is targeted towards people who have a certain amount of intrigue about Antimicrobial Stewardship.
The Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance certification syllabus revolves around topics like safety and quality use of antibiotics. This course will also allow interaction between global colleagues to understand all about antibiotic resistance. It will also permit students to realize why it has been placed along with a topic like terrorism by the World Economic Forum.
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance training empowers students to attend an online classroom that is a group of students, and faculty belonging from all around the world. This will allow the learners to create a big global community so that they are able to learn properly.
The Highlights
- 100% online mode of course
- 6 weeks course
- Learning every week for 3 hours
- An initiative by FutureLearn for certificate
- Get free access to this program
- Accredited course
Programme Offerings
- Online Course
- 3 hours Study Weekly
- Self learning
- 6 Weeks Course
- completion certificate
- Global Classroom
- Progress Page
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Futurelearn |
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance Fee Structure
Description | Amount in INR |
Subscribe & save | Rs. 6,500 |
| Limited access | Free |
one-off payment | Rs. 2,763.36 |
Eligibility Criteria
Educational Qualification
No particular educational background has been mentioned in the course details
Work Experience
All candidates who want to be enrolled in the Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance certification by FutureLearn should possess some kind of experience in identifying, and treating diseases that are infectious.
Certification Qualifying Details
For earning the certificate students have to meet certain requirements like attending all the content in the course and finishing all the assignments.
What you will learn
The course will help the students in the following areas:
- The candidates will understand how antibiotic resistance can be of threat during the practice of a learner, and in their location.
- Students will also learn tools and techniques that they can use in antimicrobial stewardship for the betterment of the practice, and location of the learner.
- Participants will learn the way to use Point Prevalence Surveys, and also calculate DDDs.
- For an optimal level of antibiotic prescribing, students must have a look at the value of novel diagnostics.
- Learners can make use of global examples of successful implementation of antimicrobial stewardship for their own practice and location improvement.
Who it is for
The course is primarily taught in English, but there are 3 other languages that you may want to consider learning in like Espanol. Mainly someone who has an interest as well as a certain experience in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of some kind of infectious disease.
Admission Details
The details of the admission procedure have been stated in the steps below:
Step 1: To get an idea start by visiting the official site: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/antimicrobial-stewardship.
Step 2: After this step, the candidates must look out for the button named ‘Register’.
Step 3: When the button is found the students must click it, and begin making an account.
Step 4: Then registration has to be done by students' own Facebook or official Gmail Id.
Step 5: As soon the above steps get over, the candidates pay some amount as fees, and are granted admission.
Application Details
There is no application form that has to be completed, but instead, there is a new registration form that has to fill fully. Apart from some personal details, the learners have the opportunity to register with their official social media accounts like Gmail or Facebook. This will enable them to sign in again to this account by using the social login option.
The Syllabus
- Introduction
- Setting The Scene
- The Impact Of Resistance
- A Closer Look at Resistance
- Prescribing and Resistance
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- What is Antimicrobial Stewardship?
- Who Needs to be Involved in Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies
- The Effectiveness of interventions used in antimicrobial Stewardship
- Why measure antibiotic use?
- How and what to measure.
- Measuring the quality of antibiotic use.
- Welcome to Week 4
- Seizing the opportunity to diagnose the cause of infection
- Novel diagnostic tests and their implementation
- Biomarkers
- Computerised decision support
- Pharmacokinetics (PK) Pharmacodynamics (PD)
- Behaviour change
- Whose behaviour needs to change?
- Culture and context
- Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) and the Model for Improvement.
- Power distance and uncertainty avoidance
- Introduction to Week 6: Quick wins from across the globe
- Quick win 1
- Implementing the model for improvement
- Measuring the impact of the model
- Quick win 2
- The problem
Instructors
University of Dundee, Dundee Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, and the University of Dundee are the ones responsible for preparing this course.
The Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance program has been accredited by the Royal College of Pathologists.
This means that the students need to follow any set pattern or schedule for studying.
The duration for which the course content can be accessed is 6 weeks.
Dilip Nathwani who is a doctor for the past 25+ years is the course educator.