Developing Interactive Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention Curricula for Diverse Learners: A Tailored Approach

Nori, Priya; Madaline, Theresa; Munjal, Iona; Bhar, Shubha; Guo, Yi; Seo, Susan K.; Porrovecchio, Andrea; Gancher, Elizabeth; Nosanchuk, Joshua; Pirofski, Liise-anne; Ostrowsky, Belinda

Stewardship literature has established that education alone cannot sustain improvements in antimicrobial prescribing behaviors [10] . Furthermore, new regulatory requirements will require concerted educational outreach to enable global improvements in antibiotic prescribing. President Obama's 2014 National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria proposed a widespread implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASP) to reduce antibiotic use by 20%-50% across all healthcare settings [11] . The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission proposed similar ASP standards in 2016 [12, 13] . Per Ohl and Luther [14] , the goal of stewardship education is not only to reduce total antibiotic use, but also to ensure that antibiotics are prescribed only when indicated, at the correct dose, route, and for the proper duration for each infection.