Healthcare Professionals: Optimize Antibiotic Prescribing and Use

Healthcare Professionals: Optimize Antibiotic Prescribing and Use  Free continuing education. Register now.

Today, CDC’s Office of Antibiotic Stewardship launched the first section of a four-part web-based training course on Antibiotic Stewardship. While this particular course is primarily for clinicians who prescribe antibiotics, CDC recognizes that everyone plays an important role in improving antibiotic use. Doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified health education specialists, nurses, pharmacists, and public health practitioners with a master’s degree in public health are all eligible to receive up to eight hours of CE from this course, which is accessible in multiple modules offered in four sections. The first section is available now, with additional content releasing later this year.

This new course launches on the heels of CDC’s Be Antibiotics Aware: Smart Use, Best Care educational effort—aimed at optimizing antibiotic prescribing and use to protect patients and combat the threat of antibiotic resistance—and informs healthcare professionals about proper antibiotic use, encouraging open discussion among doctors and patients.

To learn more about this course, as well as other continuing education opportunities, visit the CDC Antibiotic Use website.

This course fulfills Improvement Activities (IA) Patient Safety and Practice Assessment (PSPA)_23 and PSPA_24 under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Merit-Based Incentive Programs, or MIPS. 

Create an account and register for this course directly at CDC Train.

Available now! New free CE course on Antibiotic Stewardship from @CDCgov.Set up an account and register: https://www.train.org/cdctrain/course/1075730.