Training courses on antimicrobial stewardship

AGENCIES

World Health Organization (WHO)

• WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities (2022)
• Antimicrobial stewardship programmes in health-care facilities in low- and middle-income countries: a WHO practical toolkit (2022)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship: A competency-based approach

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Free, interactive, web-based course divided in four sections (CDC TRAIN Learning Network)
  CDC Training on Antibiotic Stewardship

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Learning Portal - Antimicrobial Stewardship e-learning course
• Learning Portal - Training Materials for a course on Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Prudent Antibiotic use Campaigns

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC)

• Free-of-charge e-learning course on how to assess and improve antibiotic prescribing
  Use point prevalence surveys (PPS) to combat antibiotic resistance

EU/EEA COUNTRIES

Belgium

• Free-of-charge e-learning course from the University of Antwerp (Universiteit Antwerpen), featured by TRACE and The Tipping Point
  10 minutes e-learning: Safe and effective management of primary care patients with acute cough while reducing unnecessary antibiotic use

Germany

• Training courses on antibiotic stewardship in hospitals for doctors and pharmacists (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Infektiologie - DGI)
  ABS Fortbildungen für Krankenhausärzte und -apotheker
• Antibiotic stewardship course (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene - DGKH)
  ABS-Kurse der DGKH

COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE EU/EEA

United Kingdom

• Free-of-charge online training course from the University of Dundee, UK
  Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
  Optimización del uso de antimicrobianos: Gestión de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos
• Free webinars highlighting key easy actions that primary care prescribers can take to help improve their antibiotic prescribing, while at the same time improve the patient’s experience and self-care
  Free TARGET antibiotic webinar series (2016)