Development of a Multifaceted Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum for Undergraduate Medical Education: The Antibiotic Stewardship, Safety, Utilization, Resistance, and Evaluation (ASSURE) Elective

Rebecca Wang; Kathleen O Degnan; Vera P Luther; Julia E Szymczak; Eric N Goren; Ashleigh Logan; Rachel Shnekendorf; Keith W Hamilton

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofab231

Development of a Multifaceted Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum for Undergraduate Medical Education: The Antibiotic Stewardship, Safety, Utilization, Resistance, and Evaluation (ASSURE) Elective

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 May 8;8(6):ofab231. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab231. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Rebecca Wang¹, Kathleen O Degnan¹, Vera P Luther², Julia E Szymczak³, Eric N Goren⁴, Ashleigh Logan⁵, Rachel Shnekendorf⁵, Keith W Hamilton¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Society of America, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Abstract

To address the growing need for dedicated stewardship training in undergraduate medical education, we developed an antimicrobial stewardship curriculum for medical students with the objectives of increasing expertise in antimicrobial prescribing, introducing antimicrobial stewardship fundamentals, and enhancing comfort with engagement in interprofessional antimicrobial stewardship activities.

Keywords: antimicrobial stewardship; curriculum; medical education; medical student.