Abstract
Proper antibiotic usage education and training of medical students and healthcare professionals is the cornerstone to implement antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs worldwide. We conducted this voluntary and anonymous survey on current and preferred educational provision of AMS in Russia. Among 1358 polled respondents from six participating Centers located in geographically remote Federal Districts of Russia, the majority were nurses (52.8%) and doctors (42.0%). Results of the survey demonstrated better coverage of education in AMS on an undergraduate level (57.1%). More than half of respondents in total (52.4%) stated they had not received any postgraduate training. Those 38.4% respondents who received postgraduate teaching in AMS stated that it had been provided substantially by an employing hospital (28.4%) or by a medical university/college (22.3%). According to the conducted survey, the methods of education in AMS in Russian Federation mainly include traditional face-to-face lectures, presentations and provision with clinical guidelines, recommendations and printed materials. The involvement of e-learning and web-based online approaches was lacking. The survey allowed us the identify the key problems associated with training of healthcare workers in this field, in particular the varying availability of under- and postgraduate education in different parts of Russia.
Highlights
A voluntary and anonymous survey on current and preferred educational provision on antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) with a total number of 1358 respondents from 6 participating Centers located in geographically remote Federal Districts (FD) of the Russian Federation (RF) was conducted
Innovative educational approaches were more likely to originate or be adopted in the main cities and the central part of the RF we ensured that centers more peripheral and distant from these areas were represented within the survey
The results showed that antimicrobial stewardship education and training is more preferred to be delivered as a part of the infection prevention/control education cycle or as a completely separate cycle/topic
Summary
Antimicrobial (AM) prescribing is the key factor contributing to a recognized global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It is widely accepted that antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is the crucial strategy to combat AMR. Proper antibiotic usage education and training of medical students and healthcare professionals is the cornerstone to implement. AMS programs worldwide [1,2,3,4]. The current situation tends to be more critical and meaningful during the COVID-19 pandemic due to increased inappropriate AM prescribing [5,6]
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
