Section 4: Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Logistics 

Content in this section is available through one interactive activity and one module.

As the faculty or stewardship champion leading this effort, you can decide how the content is distributed and presented to your stewards- in- training.

The first activity is an antibiotic shortage simulation exercise entitled “Shortage Mitigation of Antibiotics in Real Time (SMART)”.

For Stewards:

Stewards- in- training should prepare for the shortage exercise by researching the SMART preparation questions. Faculty can distribute the questions and provide a brief primer on the activity if necessary.

For Faculty:

Ideally, several hours to a week after the preparation exercise is complete, faculty will lead a small group exercise while working through one of the two eLearning modules as a group. Alternatively, faculty can lead the small group exercise without the eLearning module(s) and instead use the provided documents to guide discussion. 

If faculty resources are not available or the stewards- in- training want to learn more, they are welcome to view/listen to the pre-recorded "SMARTcast Exercise", recorded at IDWeek 2018.

For this module of Section 4, stewards in training will gather relevant history behind ASPs, become familiar with how medications move through formulary and interact with different committees. They will also be introduced to some quality improvement concepts, that can be further developed in the Advanced AS Curriculum.