Date: 26-27 October 2023
Location: Online
Organisers
Faculty of medicine, University Ss Cyril and Methodius Skopje & Institute for Social Innovation - Skopje
Module objectives
1. Recognizes problems that should be addressed in outpatient setting and is capable for addressing them by organizing appropriate structures, interventions, and monitoring
2. Understands the role of cultural and behavioral determinants in antibiotic prescribing in outpatient and primary care
3. Can recognize the facilitators and barriers to ASPs and is able to address them
4. Understands and can perform different communication techniques
5. Can communicate with all stakeholders involved in AMS at primary care level
Preliminary programme
Date: 27-28 February 2024
Location: Online
Organiser
European society of intensive medicine (ESICM)
Module objectives
By the end of the module, participants should:
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understand core elements and trajectories of ASPs in different clinical settings, including the ICU and ED.
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Present the ICU as an attractive field of action for ASPs
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Intensify cooperation of ESCMID and ESICM in this important topic. Intensivists (ESICM) should be "visible“ as proponents and facilitators of AMS
Preliminary programme
Date: 13-14 March, 2024
Location: Online
Organisers
ESCMID PK/PD of Anti-Infectives Study Group (EPASG), The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST), The International Society of Anti-Infective Pharmacology (ISAP)
Module objectives
This course presents and summarises currently available knowledge on PK/PD of
commonly used antibiotics, strategies for setting clinical breakpoints, individualised dosing, and
therapeutic drug monitoring. The aim is to provide participants with insights that can be used to
optimise antibiotic therapy for different patient groups, infection sites and pathogens.
Preliminary programme
*This module programme is subject to minor amendments
Date: 5-6 April 2024
Location: Online
Organisers
Aster Medcity
Module objectives
At the end of the course, the participant will be able to:
- Understand the basics and need for AMS in their setting
- Develop and implement a AMS program relevant to their setting
Preliminary programme
*This module programme is subject to minor amendments
Date: 8-10 May 2024
Location: Seville, Spain
Organisers
Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena
Module objectives
1. To learn how an antimicrobial stewardship programme (ASP) was designed and implemented in a specific setting (University hospital with a low rate of multidrug-resistant organisms [MDRO] located in Southern Europe)
2. To observe and learn how the ASP interventions are performed in real life in the different clinical settings and scenarios, with the available resources
3. To discuss how to measure the impact of the interventions
4. To understand the importance of the synergy between infection control and ASP
Preliminary programme
Date: 16-17 September 2024
Location: Herrsching, Germany
Organisers
Paediatric working group, ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Stewardship (ESGAP)
Module objectives
Although providing advice on the management of children with infections (both common and complex infections) falls within the routine workload of clinical microbiologists and antimicrobial
pharmacists working in general hospitals across Europe, as well as adult infectious diseases specialists on occasion, there are many fundamental differences between adults and children that impact on clinical decision making. Not only are children vulnerable to a number of pathologies that most adults are protected from, the aetiology and presentation of infection in children often differs considerably. Sample
collection in children can be extremely challenging and the effect of the microbiota can limit the utility of many tests in children. For these reasons, many microbiologists, adult infection specialists and clinical pharmacists feel less confident proving advice on children compared to adults, potentially resulting in unnecessary investigations, prolonged exposure to antimicrobials and diagnostic delays. This course aims to address some of these issues through a series of case-based interactive workshops. Active participation will be maintained through face to face discussions and real-time voting. Key differences between children and adults will be highlighted and evidence based approaches to managing children will be presented. Discussions within these workshops will include the role of lumbar puncture in young infants with UTIs, conservative versus surgical
management of atypical mycobacterial lymphadenitis in children, the role of pneumococcal urinary antigen testing in children with pneumonia, whether routine echocardiography is required in all children with staph aureus bacteraemia, investigating the baby with late onset sepsis, managing children following a significant exposure to pulmonary TB and many others. This case-based interactive approach has been used annually at various international infecton conferences and has received excellent feedback from microbiologists, pharmacists and infectious diseases specialists worlwide.
Preliminary programme
Date: 6-7 November 2024
Location: Online
Organisers
ESCMID Ethics Advisory Committee
Module objectives
At the end of the course the participants will identify and will be sensitized on the ethical issues related to the field of antimicrobial stewardship, one-health topics, and the unique ethical issues on infection control
Preliminary programme
Date: January 2025
Location: Online
Organisers
Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, University of Paris, IAME, Inserm; in partnership with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Imperial College London, United Kingdom, University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Module objectives
Understand the issues and challenges of AMS in LMICs, to enable participants to better adapt the concepts learned in the other modules to these specific contexts, based on the example of several specific initiatives and solutions. The module will cover three themes: the context (Epidemiology of AMR and Antimicrobial prescription in LMICs); the implementation of AMS programs in LMICs; and the perspectives (researches, innovations, and training programs). This is aimed either at participants wishing to practice directly in these fields, or at those working on global health issues.
Preliminary programme
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Please refer to the Elective modules from the ESCMID AMS Certificate 2022-2024 here.
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