Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students): 

At the conclusion of this curricular unit, students should be able to:

• Understand the meaning of antimicrobial resistance, the means by which it occurs and its significance as a threat to both patient safety and public health;
• Understand core competencies of antimicrobial stewardship and how they can be applied to common clinical scenarios;
• Develop strategies to implement evidence-based practices for antimicrobial stewardship in a practice setting;
• List the benefits of antibiotic stewardship across the healthcare spectrum;
• Develop a plan to lead an antimicrobial stewardship program.

Syllabus: 

• Overview of antimicrobial resistance;
• Antibiotic use and misuse
• Drivers and determinants;
• What is antimicrobial stewardship?;
• Key steps in developing an antimicrobial stewardship programme;
• Assessing the need and motivation;
• Expertise, structure and organisation;
• The role of the laboratory in stewardshi
• Optimising stewardship through better pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics;
• Measurements of antimicrobial stewardship;
• Antimicrobial stewardship and behaviour change;
• Antimicrobial stewardship in low resource settings;
• Antimicrobial stewardship in the intensive care unit;
• Antimicrobial stewardship in the immunocompromised patient setting; 
• Antimicrobial stewardship in paediatrics;
• Surgical prophylaxis;
• The use of information technology to support antimicrobial stewardship;
• Informing and influencing: Antimicrobial stewardship and the media.