Faces of Resistance: Using Real-World Patients and Their Advocates to Teach Medical Students About Antimicrobial Stewardship

Priya Nori; Kelsie Cowman; Amanda Jezek; Joshua D Nosanchuk; Magdalena Slosar-Cheah; Uzma Sarwar; Rachel Bartash; Belinda Ostrowsky

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz487

Faces of Resistance: Using Real-World Patients and Their Advocates to Teach Medical Students About Antimicrobial Stewardship

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 13;6(12):ofz487. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz487. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Priya Nori¹, Kelsie Cowman¹, Amanda Jezek², Joshua D Nosanchuk^{1

3}, Magdalena Slosar-Cheah¹, Uzma Sarwar¹, Rachel Bartash¹, Belinda Ostrowsky^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
² Public Policy and Government Relations, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
⁴ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

We engaged medical students with antimicrobial stewardship (AS) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through patient stories and a panel on AMR advocacy with experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Students were surveyed on their perceptions about AS and AMR (response rate = 139 of 166, 84%).

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial stewardship; undergraduate medical education.