Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Course

Name: Advanced Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Training Course
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Govern stewardship governance, diagnostics, prescribing review, surveillance, feedback, and sustained healthcare improvement.

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: London, Baku, Manama, Casablanca, Sharm El-Sheikh, Abu Dhabi and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, London
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Advanced Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Training Course is a one-week course for healthcare leaders, stewardship teams, pharmacists, infection specialists, laboratory leaders, quality leaders, and clinical operations managers who leave with an Antimicrobial Stewardship Improvement Dossier. Participants connect antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, diagnostic stewardship, prospective audit and feedback, and antimicrobial use surveillance with governance, prescribing review, behavior change, equity, and sustained improvement. Agile Leaders Training Center presents antimicrobial stewardship as an organizational governance and improvement discipline.

Who Should Attend

Healthcare governance functions responsible for stewardship authority, resources, accountability, and escalation
Pharmacy and medicines-management functions responsible for antimicrobial use review and intervention delivery
Infection and clinical functions responsible for prescribing decisions, safety, and interdisciplinary practice
Laboratory functions responsible for specimen pathways, susceptibility results, and surveillance data
Quality and improvement functions responsible for measures, feedback, equity, and sustained change
Clinical operations functions responsible for workflows, decision rights, and service-level implementation

The course assumes participants already govern healthcare services, prescribing systems, laboratory interfaces, or improvement work and leaves out introductory microbiology, individual patient treatment advice, and infection-control certification.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries responsible for antimicrobial governance, diagnostics, prescribing systems, and healthcare improvement.

Hospitals, clinics, and integrated care networks
Pharmacy, medicines management, and clinical governance departments
Microbiology, laboratory, and diagnostic services
Quality, patient safety, and infection prevention functions
Public health, humanitarian health, and community care organizations
Health technology, insurance, and care-management services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze stewardship governance, roles, and decision rights
Use resistance, antimicrobial use, and laboratory data for prioritization
Apply diagnostic and prescribing-review pathways
Build targeted stewardship interventions and behavior-change controls
Evaluate feedback, equity, safety, and unintended effects
Design measures and routines for sustained improvement

Course Agenda

Day 1: Governance and Resistance Context

Stewardship Governance Charter and Accountability Map
Multidisciplinary Role and Decision-Rights Matrix
Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance Flow Map
Local Antibiogram Interpretation Brief
Equity and Access Risk Screen

Day 2: Diagnostics and Prescribing Review

Diagnostic Stewardship Test-Decision Pathway
Specimen Quality and Laboratory Interface Checklist
Empiric Therapy Review and De-escalation Decision Guide
Prospective Audit and Feedback Workflow
Preauthorization and Exception-Control Matrix

Day 3: Intervention and Behavior Change

Stewardship Intervention Selection Matrix
Guideline and Order-Set Alignment Review
Prescriber Behavior and Barrier Analysis
Infection Prevention and Stewardship Interface Map
Patient and Clinician Communication Plan

Day 4: Measurement and Sustainability

Antimicrobial Use and Resistance Balanced Scorecard
Data Quality and Denominator Validation Checklist
Prescriber Feedback and Service-Level Reporting Pack
Intervention Evaluation and Unintended-Effect Review
Stewardship Sustainability and Capability Roadmap

Day 5: Stewardship Improvement Practice

Exercise: Build Governance and Surveillance Foundations
Exercise: Review Diagnostics and Antimicrobial Decisions
Exercise: Design an Audit-and-Feedback Intervention
Exercise: Evaluate Measures, Equity, and Sustainability
Capstone Exercise: Antimicrobial Stewardship Improvement Dossier

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities drawn from hospitals, diagnostic networks, community care, and health-support organizations.

Suggested activity: map governance roles, surveillance inputs, laboratory dependencies, and equity risks for a selected service.
Suggested activity: review a diagnostic and prescribing pathway, identify decision points, and structure prospective audit and feedback.
Suggested activity: select interventions, analyze behavioral barriers, and design communication and implementation controls.
Suggested activity: assemble measures, reporting routines, evaluation checks, and sustainability actions in the capstone dossier.

FAQs

Who suits advanced antimicrobial stewardship training, and what does it assume?

Advanced antimicrobial stewardship training suits experienced healthcare leaders and multidisciplinary teams who already manage prescribing, diagnostics, pharmacy, laboratory, quality, infection, or improvement systems and need to govern coordinated organizational action.

How does antimicrobial stewardship training differ from infection prevention training?

Antimicrobial stewardship training governs antimicrobial decisions, diagnostics, prescribing review, use measurement, and feedback, while infection prevention training focuses primarily on preventing transmission and controlling infection risks; effective organizations connect both disciplines.

How should antimicrobial use surveillance support stewardship decisions?

Antimicrobial use surveillance should combine valid denominators, prescribing patterns, resistance signals, service context, and review cadence so teams can prioritize problems, test interventions, and communicate results without treating one measure as a complete performance judgment.

What makes prospective audit and feedback effective?

Prospective audit and feedback is effective when review criteria, timing, reviewer authority, prescriber dialogue, exceptions, documentation, measures, and learning loops are explicit and integrated with clinical and operational workflows.

How does diagnostic stewardship contribute to antimicrobial resistance work?

Diagnostic stewardship contributes by aligning test selection, specimen quality, laboratory processes, result interpretation, and clinical decisions so antimicrobial choices use relevant evidence while surveillance data remain dependable.

Conclusion

The course connects governance, surveillance, diagnostics, prescribing review, intervention design, behavior change, measurement, equity, and sustainability. Participants take back an Antimicrobial Stewardship Improvement Dossier. The dossier changes organizational practice by making responsibilities, decision pathways, controls, measures, feedback routines, and improvement priorities explicit and reviewable.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Amsterdam	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Langkawi	Week 06, 2027 14 – 18 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
San Diego	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€14,000
Porto	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Paris	Week 09, 2027 1 – 5 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Chicago	Week 09, 2027 7 – 11 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Madrid	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Bali	Week 11, 2027 21 – 25 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Accra	Week 12, 2027 28 March – 1 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
London	Week 14, 2027 5 – 9 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 15, 2027 12 – 16 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Montreux	Week 16, 2027 19 – 23 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Vienna	Week 17, 2027 26 – 30 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Cape town	Week 17, 2027 2 – 6 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Dubai	Week 18, 2027 3 – 7 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Zanzibar	Week 18, 2027 9 – 13 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 19, 2027 10 – 14 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Athens	Week 20, 2027 17 – 21 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,700
Manama	Week 20, 2027 23 – 27 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Lagos	Week 20, 2027 23 – 27 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100

Frequently asked questions

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OverviewAdvanced Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Training Course is a one-week course for healthcare leaders, stewardship teams, pharmacists, infection specialists, laboratory leaders, quality leaders, and clinical operations managers who leave with an Antimicrobial Stewardship Improvement Dossier. Participants connect antimicrobial stewardship,…

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Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Course