Antimicrobial resistance curriculum assessment tool for medical education

Download or read book Antimicrobial resistance curriculum assessment tool for medical education written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) calls for making AMR a core component of professional education and training. In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) published Competency framework for health workers’ education and training on AMR to ensure that academic institutions and regulatory agencies provided pre-service and in-service training to equip health workers with the adequate competencies to address AMR. This was followed by Health workers’ training and education on AMR: curricula guide, which outlines the learning objectives and expected outcomes of pre-service training of health workers to improve curricula. The tool for assessing AMR curricula for medical education complements other WHO tools. Its aim is to identify gaps in curricula for medical education so that they can be remediated. This tool will allow a rapid review of curricula for training medical students in a national or university context to evaluate the robustness of their content for achieving the core competencies listed in the Competency Framework for Health Workers’ Education and Training on AMR. It can also assist in designing a strategy to enhance the AMR elements in curricula for medical education and to stimulate or facilitate periodic structured discussions on AMR and health worker competencies among the faculty of medical universities and other relevant stakeholders. A robust medical curriculum, which sufficiently includes AMR elements, will contribute to ensuring that future doctors have the necessary awareness and skills to address AMR in policy and practice.