OBJECTIVE: To design an elective for pharmacy students that facilitates antimicrobial stewardship awareness, knowledge, and skill development by solving clinical cases, using human patient simulation technology. DESIGN: The elective was designed for PharmD students to describe principles and functions of stewardship programs, select, evaluate, refine, or redesign patient-specific plans for infectious diseases in the context of antimicrobial stewardship, and propose criteria and stewardship management strategies for an antimicrobial class at a health care institution. Teaching methods included active learning and lectures. Cases of bacterial endocarditis and cryptococcal meningitis were developed that incorporated human patient simulation technology. ASSESSMENT: Forty-five pharmacy students completed an antimicrobial stewardship elective between 2010 and 2013. Outcomes were assessed using student perceptions of and performance on rubric-graded assignments. CONCLUSION: A PharmD elective using active learning, including novel cases conducted with human patient simulation technology, enabled outcomes consistent with those desired of pharmacists assisting in antimicrobial stewardship programs.
OBJECTIVE: To design an elective for pharmacy students that facilitates antimicrobial stewardship awareness, knowledge, and skill development by solving clinical cases, using humanpatient simulation technology. DESIGN: The elective was designed for PharmD students to describe principles and functions of stewardship programs, select, evaluate, refine, or redesign patient-specific plans for infectious diseases in the context of antimicrobial stewardship, and propose criteria and stewardship management strategies for an antimicrobial class at a health care institution. Teaching methods included active learning and lectures. Cases of bacterial endocarditis and cryptococcal meningitis were developed that incorporated humanpatient simulation technology. ASSESSMENT: Forty-five pharmacy students completed an antimicrobial stewardship elective between 2010 and 2013. Outcomes were assessed using student perceptions of and performance on rubric-graded assignments. CONCLUSION: A PharmD elective using active learning, including novel cases conducted with humanpatient simulation technology, enabled outcomes consistent with those desired of pharmacists assisting in antimicrobial stewardship programs.
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active learning; antimicrobial stewardship; infectious diseases; simulation; technology
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Authors: Larry M Baddour; Walter R Wilson; Arnold S Bayer; Vance G Fowler; Ann F Bolger; Matthew E Levison; Patricia Ferrieri; Michael A Gerber; Lloyd Y Tani; Michael H Gewitz; David C Tong; James M Steckelberg; Robert S Baltimore; Stanford T Shulman; Jane C Burns; Donald A Falace; Jane W Newburger; Thomas J Pallasch; Masato Takahashi; Kathryn A Taubert Journal: Circulation Date: 2005-06-14 Impact factor: 29.690
Authors: John R Perfect; William E Dismukes; Francoise Dromer; David L Goldman; John R Graybill; Richard J Hamill; Thomas S Harrison; Robert A Larsen; Olivier Lortholary; Minh-Hong Nguyen; Peter G Pappas; William G Powderly; Nina Singh; Jack D Sobel; Tania C Sorrell Journal: Clin Infect Dis Date: 2010-02-01 Impact factor: 9.079