My name is Naomi Weier, and as part of my PhD studies I am conducting research investigating antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) training programmes available to health professionals around the world. My supervisors are Dr Tabish Zaidi and Dr Rahul Patel from the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia, and we are conducting this research in conjunction with: Prof Céline Pulcini from the University of Lorraine, France; Prof Karin Thursky from The University of Melbourne and Doherty Institute, Australia; Dr Thomas Grenholm Tängdén from Uppsala University, Sweden; Prof Dilip Nathwani from Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, United Kingdom;  Dr Vera Vlahović from University of Rijeka, Croatia; Dr Oliver Dyar from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Assoc Prof Bojana Beović from University Medical Centre Ljubljana and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Prof Gabriel Levy Hara from Durand Hospital, Argentina.

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Definition of AMS for this study:

Antimicrobial stewardship involves planned activities and interventions that promote and support the judicious use of antimicrobials, and aims to reduce antimicrobial resistance.


What training programmes are we interested in?

·         Postgraduate courses/programmes offered to health professionals that are/want to be part of an AMS team and/or are/want to be involved in AMS on a daily basis. These courses must have a significant component devoted to AMS (the programme may be completely focussed on AMS or may also offer other subjects – eg. antimicrobial prescribing – as well as AMS).  For a course to be eligible, at least 50% of the course content must be devoted to AMS.

·         Courses/programmes that are currently available regionally/nationally/internationally and DO NOT have restrictions (eg. can only be accessed by health professionals in a certain region). The course may be offered in any format (eg. face-to-face, online, distance learning). Below are some of the examples of the courses we are interested in:

1. The ESGAP Antimicrobial Stewardship Course (https://congresscare.com/en/congress/esgap-antimicrobial-stewardship-course/)


2. The Antimicrobial stewardship: optimization of antibiotic practices online course provided by Stanford University: http://online.stanford.edu/course/antimicrobial-stewardship-optimization-antibiotic-practices


3. The Antimicrobial stewardship: managing antibiotic resistance online course offered by University of Dundee/The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/antimicrobial-stewardship

What training programmes are we not interested in?

·         Courses/programmes that are only available for local health professionals and excludes wider participation such as local hospital programs OR courses/programmes that do not have at least 50% of contents directed towards AMS such as courses dedicated to infectious diseases or antibiotic prescribing only. For example:

·         The Antibiotic Therapy in Practice course provided by ESCMID (http://www.antibioticscourse.com/)

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* 1. What training programme(s) do you offer on AMS?

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* 2. What is your role in delivering this training programme?

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* 3. What type best describes your organisation? (Please select all that apply)

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* 4. How many training programmes are you able to provide information on?

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* 5. What is the intended outcome of your AMS training programme? (Please select all that apply)

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* 6. Please attach the full programme of the course or insert a weblink for the training programme (if available)

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* 7. How is the AMS training programme promoted/advertised to potential participants? (please select all that apply)

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* 8. How many years has the course been running for?

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* 9. Roughly, how many participants have completed the course (if an actual or approximate estimate is known)?

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* 10. In your opinion, what are some of the barriers or challenges that limit participant uptake and participation? (Please select all that apply)

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* 11. What cost(s) to participants are associated with accessing your programme? (Please select all that apply)

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* 12. Do health professionals in your city, local region or country have access to funding to complete an AMS training programme?

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* 13. If yes, can you please provide details of such funding arrangements [eg. is it restricted to some professionals such as Doctors or Pharmacists or Nurses, etc.]

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* 14. If your programme is not free to access, are there funding opportunities available for participants to get this programme reimbursed by their employers (if known)?

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* 15. Please use the following space to provide any other comments, suggestions or opinions about this topic

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* 16. Are you aware of any other organisation(s) that run an AMS training programme in your country or elsewhere?

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* 17. If yes, please provide contact details of the programme coordinator or a website link to the training programme

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