MAD-ID 2019
PROGRAMMATIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES
As an attendee of MAD-ID 2019, you will be able to earn up to 18 Continuing Pharmacy Education hours (1.8 CEU). MAD-ID is in the process of arranging for CME and CNE.
At the conclusion of this activity, you should be able to:
Depending on which four classroom/workshop sessions the participant attends, four of the following eight learning objectives should be achieved:
- Design effective antimicrobial stewardship strategies for front-line clinicians
- Describe implementation and evaluation processes to support antimicrobial stewardship interventions
- Apply pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles for optimization of antibiotic dosing
- Explain the use of leadership skills in antimicrobial stewardship practice
- Discuss the importance of formulary processes in ensuring appropriate antimicrobial use
- Describe the process of developing a business plan to justify new or expanded antimicrobial stewardship services
- Explain how data from electronic medical records can be used to evaluate antimicrobial stewardship interventions
- Outline antimicrobial interventions to improve patient outcomes
The following learning objective relate to the remaining educational sessions:
- Discuss past trends and predict future changes in antimicrobial resistance and stewardship
- Explain recommendations from public, government, and regulatory agencies to improve antimicrobial use and reduce resistance
- List opportunities to work with nurses and other healthcare professionals to enhance antimicrobial stewardship in new settings, including long term care
- Describe the challenges of improving outpatient antimicrobial use and suggest an opportunity for use of point of care testing in primary/urgent care settings
- Summarize the evidence for short courses of antimicrobial therapy for common infections and for de-escalation or use of oral agents for gram negative bloodstream infection
- List social and behavior drivers of antimicrobial use and describe how patient perspectives can change prescribing behavior
- Explain how new microbiological tests and collaboration with microbiology laboratory staff can improve antimicrobial use
- Describe the clinical data and place in therapy for new agents to treat bacterial infections
- Identify important new literature in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship, and describe the impact of the opioid epidemic on infectious diseases practice