TY - JOUR
T1 - Consensus-based antimicrobial resistance and stewardship competencies for UK undergraduate medical students
AU - Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) group
AU - McMaster, David
AU - Courtenay, Molly
AU - Santucci, Catherine
AU - Davies, Angharad P
AU - Kirby, Andrew
AU - Seddon, Owen
AU - Price, David A
AU - Barlow, Gavin
AU - Lim, Felicia H
AU - Davies, Bethany S
AU - O'Shea, Matthew K
AU - Collini, Paul
AU - Basarab, Marina
AU - Ahmad, Afshan
AU - Albur, Mahableshwar
AU - Hemsley, Carolyn
AU - Brown, Nicholas M
AU - O'Gorman, Ciaran
AU - Rautemaa-Richardson, Riina
AU - Davies, Geraint R
AU - Penfold, Christopher N
AU - Patel, Sanjay
PY - 2020/12/4
Y1 - 2020/12/4
N2 - In the UK there is limited coverage of antimicrobial stewardship across postgraduate curricula and evidence that final year medical students have insufficient and inconsistent antimicrobial stewardship teaching. A national undergraduate curriculum for antimicrobial resistance and stewardship is required to standardize an adequate level of understanding for all future doctors. To provide a UK national consensus on competencies for antimicrobial resistance and stewardship for undergraduate medical education. Using the modified Delphi method over two online survey rounds, an expert panel comprising leads for infection teaching from 25 UK medical schools reviewed competency descriptors for antimicrobial resistance and stewardship education. There was a response rate of 100% with all 28 experts who agreed to take part completing both survey rounds. Following the first-round survey, of the initial 55 descriptors, 43 reached consensus (78%). The second-round survey included the 12 descriptors from the first round in which agreement had not been reached, four amended descriptors and 12 new descriptors following qualitative feedback from the panel members. Following the second-round survey, a total of 58 consensus-based competency descriptors within six overarching domains were identified. The consensus-based competency descriptors defined here can be used to inform standards, design curricula, develop assessment tools and direct UK undergraduate medical education.
AB - In the UK there is limited coverage of antimicrobial stewardship across postgraduate curricula and evidence that final year medical students have insufficient and inconsistent antimicrobial stewardship teaching. A national undergraduate curriculum for antimicrobial resistance and stewardship is required to standardize an adequate level of understanding for all future doctors. To provide a UK national consensus on competencies for antimicrobial resistance and stewardship for undergraduate medical education. Using the modified Delphi method over two online survey rounds, an expert panel comprising leads for infection teaching from 25 UK medical schools reviewed competency descriptors for antimicrobial resistance and stewardship education. There was a response rate of 100% with all 28 experts who agreed to take part completing both survey rounds. Following the first-round survey, of the initial 55 descriptors, 43 reached consensus (78%). The second-round survey included the 12 descriptors from the first round in which agreement had not been reached, four amended descriptors and 12 new descriptors following qualitative feedback from the panel members. Following the second-round survey, a total of 58 consensus-based competency descriptors within six overarching domains were identified. The consensus-based competency descriptors defined here can be used to inform standards, design curricula, develop assessment tools and direct UK undergraduate medical education.
U2 - 10.1093/jacamr/dlaa096
DO - 10.1093/jacamr/dlaa096
M3 - Article
C2 - 34223048
VL - 2
JO - JAC-antimicrobial resistance
JF - JAC-antimicrobial resistance
SN - 2632-1823
IS - 4
M1 - dlaa096
ER -