Webinars and Learning Modules for Veterinary Professionals and Students
- A Stepwise Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship in Small Animal Practice
- Continuing education credit available.
- By the end of this 1-hour webinar, participants will 1) understand the significance of antimicrobial resistance in small animals and its impact on public health, 2) discover simple antimicrobial stewardship actions that can be taken in small animal practices and how they related to the AVMA Core Principles, and 3) determine which actions can be prioritized for antimicrobial stewardship initiatives in their own clinical setting.
- The course has been approved by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards' Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE®) for 1 continuing education credit. The cost is $20.
- Register here: https://learning.umn.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=33071140
- Antibiotic Stewardship in Veterinary Medicine Webinar Series
- Hosted by Minnesota One Health Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative and Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association. Archived webinars covering topics in small animal, equine, and food animal antibiotic stewardship.
- Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Site (AMRLS)
- These open-source teaching modules are designed for integration into existing veterinary school courses regarding pharmacology, microbiology, One Health, and species-specific medicine. Continuing education credit is available for most modules.
- The AMRLS can be viewed as an e-book here.
- Veterinary Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Six self-paced learning modules on the topics of antimicrobial resistance and the important role that veterinarians play as prescribers.
- Improving Antimicrobial Prescribing in Companion Animal Medicine (YouTube) | (Slides)
- Dr. Jennifer Granick and Emma Leof Bollig present ways to improve antimicrobial prescribing in companion animal medicine during a webinar hosted by CIDRAP-ASP.
- VetVine: Antimicrobial Stewardship Made Practical for Practitioners
- Continuing education credit available.
- Understand the significance of antimicrobial resistance both as a one health issue and specifically for companion animals, understand basic concepts of antimicrobial stewardship, and determine which of the simple actions presented you can take as the first small step towards improving antimicrobial stewardship in practice in a 50-minute course presented by ARSI co-Director Dr. Jennifer Granick.
- This course has been approved for 1 hour of CE credit ($50).
Learning Modules for Veterinary Faculty
- Antimicrobial Stewardship: Building Competencies in Judicious Use to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
- These modules were developed by a multi-institutional team of experts to help teach veterinary students the essential knowledge and skills to support judicious use of antimicrobials in clinical practice.
- The online collection of evidence-based educational resources is available for free to all schools of veterinary medicine within the United States and covers antimicrobial pharmacology, mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, public health implications of antimicrobial resistance, and judicious antimicrobial use in clinical practice.
Short Videos for Veterinary Professionals and Students
- Antibiotics for Diarrhea: Friend or Foe?
- This video highlights why antibiotics (metronidazole) are typically not needed for acute diarrhea in dogs and cats.
- The Hidden Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) Threat: What Vets Need to Know
- This video discusses the emerging threat of carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales (CRE) in dogs and cats.