Focusing on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship (IAS) a Foundation Course

A total of five modules have been included in this course

MODULE-1: Introduction to the IAS Foundation course

MODULE-2: The core concept of integrated antimicrobial stewardship

MODULE-3: Diagnostic Stewardship

MODULE-4: Clinical Antibiogram

MODULE-5: Bedside IAS Practice

MODULE-6: Health Care-Associated Infection (HAI) and Hand Hygiene

MODULE-7: Biomedical Waste Management

MODULE-8: Needle Stick Injury

MODULE-9: Standard and Transmission-Based Precautions

MODULE-10: Hospital Source Control– Unmet Need of an Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Practice

MODULE-11: Employee Vaccination

MODULE-12: Antimicrobial prophylaxis( Medical)

MODULE-13: Antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery

MODULE-14: Prospective audit and feedback

MODULE-15: IV to Oral switch / Stop order / Redundancy alert / Other Hanging fruits

MODULE-16: Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics

MODULE-17: Measurement of Process and outcome indicators

MODULE-18: Preauthorization/AWaRe list

Modules objectives:

A. To impact knowledge about the extent and impact of antimicrobial resistance and the approaches used globally to contain the same

B. To provide skills to

(i) Prescribe antimicrobials rationally

(ii) Develop and follow guidelines for managing infections

(iii) Incorporate infection prevention methods in daily medical life

(iv) Incorporate diagnostic stewardship in day-to-day practice

(v) Do prospective audit and feedback

C. To provide skills to

(i) Work in a multidisciplinary team to attain objective 2

(ii) Measure antimicrobial use, identify targets of intervention, and devise strategies to contain the same

(iii) Measure the impact of infection prevention strategies

D. To provide necessary skills to the participants for initiating similar exercises in the healthcare setups where they work in the future.