Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance Certificate

Antimicrobial stewardship is a fast-growing field that aims to address this issue by managing our use of antibiotics to slow down or reduce the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance.

This free online course will help you understand what antimicrobial stewardship is and how you can apply it everyday. Although the focus is for prescribing in the hospital setting the skill set can be applied and adapted to other healthcare settings. the intention of the course is to stimulate and encourage further inquiry and learning in this important area.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’ll develop the skills and interventions that underpin antimicrobial stewardship, learning to promote responsible prescribing to reduce variation in practice, reduce waste and harm from antibiotic overuse and misuse thereby enhancing patient safety and outcomes.